America First Legal Foundation told a federal court that the US General Accountability Office is an executive agency that must respond to its Freedom of Information Act request for government records about refugee resettlement.
AFL is a conservative organization founded by Stephen Miller to promote transparency in government. It filed its FOIA request to obtain records concerning a GAO report that said the Department of Health and Human Services wasn’t meeting its targets for how frequently it visits facilities that help resettle unaccompanied refugee children.
The GAO responded that it is responsible to Congress, not the executive branch, and therefore ...
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