It'll never happen.

The 55 years is more of a issue then the size of the request.

The purpose of FOIA requests is to provide transparency. If federal agencies can simply understaff the relevant departments tasked with handling those requests, and thereby circumvent the requirement to release the information in a timely manner, it's apparent that there can't be transparency.

This is an FDA problem. Attaching a 55-year timeframe is untenable. What makes this worse is that the people requesting the data appear to be uniquely qualified to use the data to reinforce public trust in the vaccine.

So the FDA should keep hundreds of people on staff to review FOIA requests that may or may not come? I don't know of another situation where a person or group has FOIAd an entire drug application before.

But I agree let's pump the funding to govt agencies to increase headcount

hahaha 55 years, listen to the excuses

That's why I was proposing on the previous page to force the corporate lawyers of the affected pharma companies to assist with the preparation, spotting the critical parts of the documents for the FDA employees, so that they only have to review and redact a couple hundred pages instead of hundreds of thousands.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Dec 3 2021 04:12am