Hooray for the Seattle Times!

More of us should continue to keep the heat on Kyl. He needs to stop his shenanigans. Kyl's protest that the feds will wind up picking up the bill for FOIA requestors is absolutely ludicrous.

Here's the deal a lot of people don't appreciate:

Federal agencies have a loooong history of using the legal system to wear down FOIA requestors. Many times, the feds know they're obligated to give up the goods being sought -- but they push the envelope into court with hopes that the requestor will go away (after all, how many people have the money to wage such legal battles?).

The way the law is currently crafted, the feds can play a terrible game that takes requestors all the way through a (costly) court hearing. As long as the feds release the sought-after information before a judge renders an opinion, the requestor is on the hook for his or her legal expenses.

The proposal now up for consideration would make it possible -- emphasis on the word "possible" -- for requestors to recover their legal expenses from government officials.

And to think Kyl has a problem with this!