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  • CO5MO ✨@midwest.socialtoPolitics@beehaw.org•U.S. Government Agencies Flooded with Information Requests: Have Government Employees Mentioned Climate Change, Voting or Gender Identity? The Heritage Foundation Wants to Know.
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    Bookbinder also pointed out that inundating agencies with requests can interfere with the government’s ability to function. “It’s OK to make FOIA requests,” said Bookbinder, who acknowledged that CREW has also submitted its share of requests. “But if you purposely overwhelm the system, you can both cause slower response to FOIAs … and you can gum up other government functions.”

    Indeed, a government worker who processes FOIAs for a federal agency told ProPublica that the volume of requests from Heritage interfered with their ability to do their job. “Sometimes they come in at a rate of one a second,” said the worker, who asked to remain anonymous because they were not authorized to speak to the press. The worker said they now spend a third of their work time processing requests from Heritage, including some that seek communications that mention the terms “Biden” and “mental” or “Alzheimer’s” or “dementia” or “defecate” or “poop.”

    Wow this is quite an interesting read 😵‍💫 we should inundate these 3 assholes w some major spam