OSC apparently "dumps" 40 or more investigations of agency FOIA malfeasance

To Whom It May Concern:

Erin McDonnell has the function of General Counsel for OSC.  I suspect she directed or concurred with OSC's dumping its investigations of 40 or more findings of apparent agency malfeasance by Federal Judges in FOIA suits since 1989. 

For over a year, in her role as reviewing official for OSC's responses to FOIA requests, she has thrown up roadblock after roadblock, to my FOIA request for the reports OSC is required by law to provide the involved agency when OSC conducts such an investigation.  I suspect she has directed OSC's FOIA officer, Christopher Kurt, not to respond to my FOIA request.   I suspect she is abusing her position as FOIA reviewing official at OSC to cover-up her directing or concurring with OSC's unlawful dumping of the these investigations.

I hope Federal Judge Friedman chooses to get to the bottom of this in my pending FOIA suit about OSC's role in investigating findings (from other FOIA suits) of possible agency FOIA malfeasance in Carson v. OSC, docket no. 06-1834, in Federal District Court for DC.  Earlier this year, he granted OSC a 4 month extension, based on Ms. McDonnell's declaration that "extraordinary circumstances" prevented OSC from responding to the FOIA request in the statutory time limits.  At the end of 4 months, OSC still provided no records, but basically said that I had not made my request clear enough for it to respond.

The appropriate Congressional staffer could likely get to the bottom of this in an hour or less, doing so might help spur passage of the pending bill to reform FOIA, if my suspicions about OSC's unlawful dumping of FOIA investigations and Ms. McDonnell's role are substantiated.

The attached documents outline my concerns about OSC's unlawful dumping of these investigations and their basis in fact and law.   All the case filing in the FOIA suit are available via PACER.

Respectfully,

Joe Carson, PE
Knoxville, TN

Comments

[pensioner]

OSC ruled against NGIC whistleblowers Steve Jenkins and Larry Cruse--and to me this shows that OSC needs to be disestablished--just like the US Army's Intelligence Threat and Analysis Center (ITAC) was