| CDC Policy On Gagging
Employees Triggers FOIA Suit And Questions
About Dragging Feet
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
June 4 – The U.S. Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC) has reported restricted
its employees from speaking
with the press and public, at
least not without the prior
approval of the Office of Vice
President Mike
Pence.
A Freedom
of Information case case has
been filed against CDC and on
June 4 U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New
York Magistrate Judge Analisa
Torres held a proceeding.
Inner City Press covered
it.
Judge
Torres expressed scepticism at
what she called CDC's "foot
dragging," and ordered various
categories of documents to be
released or explained by June
9.
The case is
Knight First Amendment
Institute at Columbia
University v. Centers for
Disease Control and
Prevention, et al., 20-cv-2761
(Torres).
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