Dodging FOIA Could Now Mean Arrest and Strip Search, Depending on Who’s Asking

The DOJ is now treating evading a records request as a crime, a stunning act of hypocrisy from the Trump administration.

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Lauren Harper is Freedom of the Press Foundation’s first Daniel Ellsberg Chair on Government Secrecy.

Armed federal agents recently arrested Dr. David Morens, a 78-year-old retired government scientist, strip-searched him, and charged him with crimes that could carry decades in prison — all for allegedly using his personal email to try and evade Freedom of Information Act requests.

Dodging FOIA Could Now Mean Arrest and Strip Search, Depending on Who’s Asking

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