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  1. Thanks to @apcbapcb for the shoutout, in his review of @nicholsonbaker8's Baseless in @nybooks, to a point I made in my review in @thenation. But I would like to clarify something about this, for the sake of others out there who are frustrated by unsuccessful FOIA requests. /1
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      Baker's years of requests to liberate more information about Korean War-era bioweapons from the National Archives were largely unsuccessful. His original plan to prove what happened morphed into a book that is partly about FOIA's shortcomings. /2
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        In the section of my review in which I focused on his critique of the Freedom of Information Act, I pointed out a puzzling failure of imagination: Baker never filed a FOIA lawsuit. That's very often necessary to make FOIA work./3
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          In his review, @apcbapcb suggests that I am oblivious to the fact that as a New York Times reporter, I work for an organization with the legal resources to file FOIA lawsuits, but many researchers are not so lucky./4
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            In fact, what I suggested was that Baker ought to have reached out to one of several organizations that provide free legal representation to journalists and researchers with righteous FOIA requests./5
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              A particularly good one, for any such diggers reading this, are the good people at Yale Law School's Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic @MFIAclinic, including @MFIADave /6 law.yale.edu/mfia
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                Anyway, that's it. Here's the links to the two review-essays./end Mine in The Nation: thenation.com/article/culture/nicholson-baker-baseless-review/ Peter C. Baker's in The New York Review of Books: nybooks.com/articles/2021/03/11/nicholson-baker-bloodhound/
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