One interesting use of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), is crafting the request to search for certain keywords, sent to and/or from government officials.
For example, in 2015, when the Republican Presidential primary was at it’s peak, the abolishment of the IRS became a hot topic.
So, interested to see what the IRS was talking about internally, I requested a search of the following IRS official emails regarding the discussion of such a thing, on November 8, 2015.
I requested the search be conducted on the following IRS individuals:
In June of 2016, I received the documents.
This is what was released to me:
The documents below were mailed on a CD-ROM, and separated into different folders. I stipulated how they were organized below.
Folder: F16313-0002 Resp. Docs. CofStaff
Emails from Chief of Staff — Crystal Philcox.
Folder: F16313-0002 Responsive Documents Commissioner
Emails from Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service — John Koskinen
This post was published on June 29, 2016 7:24 am
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