In Washington D.C. What Goes Around Doesn’t Always Come Around

Federal agencies are required to respond to any Freedom of Information Act request within 20 days. Many times this does not happen.

A request can be denied on several grounds. An often used ground is for National Security Reasons. When this happens, the requestor’s only recourse is to file suit.

Even when the request is approved, it can take a long time to comb through all files, particularly if the request itself is for a massive amount of information stored on analog or non-digital materials or if the request is of a sensitive nature and requires selective redactions.

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In August 2020 a request was filed by the organization called Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency. They requested a large number of documents from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) about Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine.

The FDA has claimed that it will take 55 years to review the requested documents. The FDA contends this much time is necessary to remove private, personal and corporate information. This means the request wouldn’t be completed until the year 2076.

“Since the Biden administration is hell-bent on forcing these vaccine mandates on us, the public has every right to know how this vaccine was approved, especially in such a short amount of time,” Rep. Ralph Norman said. “After all, the FDA managed to consider all 329,000 pages of data and grant emergency approval of the Pfizer vaccine within just 108 days. So it’s hard to rationalize why it now needs 55 years to fully release that information to the public.”

Rep. Norman is fighting back. He has countered that he thinks 100 Days is quite enough.

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My sources tell me that the real reason the FDA needs 55 Years to comply with the Rep. Norman’s request is they do not intend on starting to work on it until 54 years, 11 months and 2 weeks from now.

I asked my sources to go back at the FDA and ask why they will not start working on the request until 54 years, 11 months and 2 weeks from now. The FDA Guy replied in an exasperated tone, “Because we are too busy not working on a lot of other requests!”

The American Public is so used to this kind of thing happening in Washington D.C. we are likely to shrug our shoulders and say, “That makes sense”.

Because we respond with a meek “That makes sense” is proof positive that they are winning and we are losing.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella