RE: FOIA case filed by NYT, the WH yest REFUSED to turn over 20 OMB emails as ordered by a Fed Judge-they sent a nasty ltr to the NYT saying it wld 'inhibit' gov't decision making. 1st FOIA they've ignored, must be serious evidence. #SaturdayThoughts nytimes.com/2020/01/03/us/…
2-"But in response to a court order that it swiftly process those pages in response to a FOIA, lawsuit filed by The New York Times, the Office of Management and Budget delivered a terse letter saying it would not turn over any of the 40 pages of emails — not even with redactions.
3-"“‘All 20 documents are being withheld in full,’ wrote Dionne Hardy, the office’s Freedom of Information Act officer. The Times’s information act request sought email messages between Robert Blair, a top aide to Mr. Trump’s acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, and
4-"Michael Duffey, an official in the White House’s Office of Management and Budget who was in charge of handling the process for releasing $391 million in weapons and security assistance Congress had appropriated to help Ukraine resist Russian aggression. …
5-"NYT lawyer David McCraw said the newspaper would challenge the blanket withholding of the documents & ask the judge overseeing the lawsuit..to approve an expedited schedule for briefs and arguments given the urgent public interest in learning more about the dispute.” ~NYT
