This year, the USA gets the opportunity to vote for or against our very own dictator! Some of the things dictators LOVE are (a) secret police, and (b) killing or imprisoning journalists, so we're bound to reap a rich set of Foilies, in years to come!
This marks the 10th anniversary of the Foilies - awards given to the public agencies responsible for the most egregious, absurd and outrageous defiance of freedom of information requests:
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