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Despite ordering improvements more than two years ago, President Bush has barely made a dent in the huge backlog of unanswered requests under the Freedom of Information Act.
At the same time, a National Security Archive audit finds Bush has provided someone for citizens to discuss how long it is going to take to process or reject their requests for federal records.
The archive released its seventh audit of the 1967 FOIA law Sunday. It found that unanswered requests governmentwide dropped about 2 percent, from 217,000 to 212,000, from the end of 2005 to the end of 2007.
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