Litigation Update #2: The judge ordered CDC to turn over emails from top officials by Friday, writing “Expedited production of these records is warranted and in the public interest with the election looming.” 
https://twitter.com/weareoversight/status/1321109016991440896
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 agreed to narrow the search terms to just one—“POTUS”—upon agreement that CDC would complete its review by Sept. 11.
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. We were supposed to get those documents Oct. 23.
CDC says it already has 520 of those pages back, but they asked to delay releasing them until the end of next week. On Monday, we asked the judge to order CDC to release them by this Friday. The judge ruled in our favor. Stay tuned for documents soon.
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