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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ms. Ballew: &lt;/strong&gt;Freedom of Information requests\u2026.&lt;/p&gt;\r\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mr. Hardy:&lt;/strong&gt; \u201CThe government\u2019s way of allowing individuals to see agency records, and this is an integral component of the open government of a democracy.\u201D&lt;/p&gt;\r\n&lt;p&gt;\u00A0&lt;/p&gt;\r\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ms. Ballew: &lt;/strong&gt;David Hardy, chief of the FBI\u2019s FOIA program, says the Bureau has processed requests for 37 years and currently receives about 15,000 requests per year.&lt;/p&gt;\r\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mr. Hardy: &lt;/strong&gt;\u201CEach month, we review over 130,000 pages for release to the public.\u201D&lt;/p&gt;\r\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mr. Ballew:&lt;/strong&gt; FBI investigations are the most common requests, but don\u2019t expect a lot on current cases.&lt;/p&gt;\r\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mr. Hardy:&lt;/strong&gt; \u201CIf the case is still under investigation, or is being tried in court, or even sometimes even on appeal, we\u2019ll be very limited in the type of information that we can release.\u201D&lt;/p&gt;\r\n&lt;p&gt;\u00A0&lt;/p&gt;\r\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ms. Ballew: &lt;/strong&gt;Hardy clears up a common question.&lt;/p&gt;\r\n&lt;p&gt;\u00A0&lt;/p&gt;\r\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mr. Hardy: &lt;/strong&gt;\u201CWe don\u2019t have a file on everyone, so don\u2019t be disappointed if we come back with no records.\u201D&lt;/p&gt;\r\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ms. Ballew: &lt;/strong&gt;Privacy considerations apply too. Current and historical files can be found online at &lt;a href=\"http://www.fbi.gov/\"&gt;www.fbi.gov&lt;/a&gt;. I\u2019m Denise Ballew of the Bureau, and that\u2019s what\u2019s happening at the \u201CFBI, This Week.\u201D&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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