Disagree, the events happened in 2019 but the article was published this year based on FOIA requests that were fulfilled after 2019.
Not sure how I missed that... guess it's time to go to bed.
I do think the headline has an urgent undertone that makes it seem like this just happened. Not sure if intentional or not
While the article does make this clear first thing, it may be worth having the title reflect this is a past event.