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27 Oct, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Litigation Update: In March, we FOIA’d CDC for emails sent by top officials containing key Covid-19 terms. After CDC failed to produce records, we sued in May.
Eventually, we agreed to narrow the search terms to just “POTUS” upon agreement that CDC would complete its review by Sept. 11.

CDC also agreed to ask any consulting agencies to complete their reviews of the responsive documents by Oct. 23.
Then, on Sept. 11, the CDC released 295 pages to us, but said that it had found ~1,600 potentially responsive pages of documents, which were sent to the White House, HHS, and State for consultation.
americanoversight.org/cdc-emails-fro…
The October 23 deadline has passed, and we’re still waiting for documents. While CDC initially indicated that 520 pages had been returned by the White House and other agencies, it won’t make any commitments as to when it will get us these records.
We believe these documents could shed light on the federal government's response to the coronavirus pandemic, so yesterday, we asked the court to order CDC to release them by this Friday.
americanoversight.org/document/joint…

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