All DOD FOIA requests for information about the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden are now being handled by the Secretary of Defense’s FOIA office, not the DOD components which created and maintain the documents, as is the usual DOD FOIA policy.
This week, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency responded to a National Security Archive FOIA request for photographs and satellite images of Abbottabad, Pakistan and the compound where bin Laden was killed by stating:
The Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) FOIA office “taking over” requests from other DOD components is unusual but not unprecedented. It occurred for requests for documents about the 1993 Waco siege, and more recently, for requests for documents about military detainees. (more…)
