February 5, 2022
Why is the New York Times suing for access to State Department correspondence on Hunter Biden and Romania?
By Rajan Laad
A few days ago, Politico.com reported that The New York Times was suing the Biden State Department for withholding correspondence mentioning Hunter Biden that is in possession of the U.S. Embassy in Romania.
In its lawsuit, filed in federal court in Manhattan, the NYT states that it had on two separate occasions placed requests under the Freedom of Information Act.
The State Department had responded that the requested records would be provided only after April 15, 2023. The law requires all federal agencies to respond to a FOIA request within 20 business days unless there are "unusual circumstances."
The NYT's suit is obviously an effort to expedite the State Department's timeline for the FOIA disclosures.
To be precise, the NYT had requested access to emails, memos, and other records from 2015 to 2019 from U.S. embassy officials in Bucharest, including former U.S. ambassador to Romania Hans Klemm, mentioning a number of individuals such as Hunter Biden and his former business associate, Tony Bobulinski.
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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/02/why_is_the_new_york_times_suing_for_access_to_state_department_correspondence_on_hunter_biden_and_romania.html
