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You’ve heard of FOIA, but how do you actually make use of it? What’s involved in filing a FOIA? Who can do it? What kind of documents can be FOIAd? What documents have been uncovered with this method and what remains to be revealed? And what does FOIA stand for, anyway? Joining us to answer these questions today is Philumina Johanni, staff attorney at JudicialWatch.org.

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Judicial Watch

Jesse Trentadue on The Corbett Report

FOIA trial offers rare look into how FBI searches records, responds to requests

The FOIA Lady Pleads the Fifth

Transparency 101: Judicial Watch FOIA Handbook

The Secrets of the JFK Assassination Archive

State Sample FOI Request Letters (also see the main page for other relevant and user-friendly information)

FOIA wiki (user-friendly resource with loads of information on the exemptions for federal FOIA requests)

The FOIA Project (website that has been tracking federal FOIA cases and their status and litigation documents since 1992, categorized by administrative agency)