By Matthew Vadum ——Bio and Archives--April 10, 2017
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BuzzFeed wants some answers from the FBI about deceased conservative media figure Andrew Breitbart — and it’s willing to sue to find out. BuzzFeed and journalist Jason Leopold have filed a complaint against the FBI, claiming that the bureau hasn’t done everything it can to answer their request for information on Breitbart. The complaint, filed Friday in federal court in California, says that Leopold filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the FBI for “all records related to Andrew Breitbart” on Aug. 7, 2012, a few months after Breitbart died at age 43.Here is a copy of the legal complaint filed in Los Angeles Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. Subject to some specified restrictions, the FBI is supposed to cough up a deceased person’s raw file when it is requested. But the federal agency takes its sweet time doing it — and that’s not okay.
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Matthew Vadum, matthewvadum.blogspot.com, is an investigative reporter.
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