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>Moreover, as a citizen of the US that has paid for the R&D of those vaccines through my tax dollars, I have a right to see the results of that research. This shouldn't be a controversial opinion.

Pfizer didn't take any US govt money for the R&D of the vaccine.

>Moreover, as a citizen of the US that has paid for the R&D of those vaccines through my tax dollars, I have a right to see the results of that research. This shouldn't be a controversial opinion. (it certainly wasn't when the House passed the Freedom Of Information Act 306 to 0 in 1966)

there's hundreds if not thousands of top secret military r&d projects funded by tax money that will never see the light of day regardless of foia, this isn't particularly special and could very well include classified info that needs to flow down very long approval and bureaucratic processes. Hiring more people and then training them on that process would just lengthen the time needed to release the info

> This argument is a really long stretch - especially because there are other ways of meeting the deadline than reassignment to the FOIA office (hiring contractors, adding employees, using interns or HR folk)

Reading a document and making an assessment of to the disclosure obligations under FOIA isn’t something you can just pluck an intern to do and hand them the box of documents.