BuzzFeed News hires FOIA terrorist Jason Leopold from Vice News

[SidDithers]

http://www.poynter.org/2017/buzzfeed-hires-foia-terrorist-jason-leopold-from-vice-news/444034/

BuzzFeed's legal team has helped reporters pry more than 70,000 pages of documents from government agencies with FOIA requests.

That number is about to increase in a big way. On Tuesday, BuzzFeed News announced the hiring of investigative journalist Jason Leopold, who has made a living — and eked out tons of scoops — by deluging the federal government with Freedom of Information Act requests.

Leopold, who currently works for VICE News, is a self-styled "FOIA terrorist," and has the distinction of triggering a flood of stories after suing for Hillary Clinton's State Department emails. Leopold has brought more FOIA lawsuits by himself than any other news organization except The New York Times.

In a memo to BuzzFeed's staff, Investigative Editor Mark Schoofs said Leopold was attracted to BuzzFeed by its legal team, which has "set aside formidable resources to help Jason continue his strategy of aggressive FOIA litigation."

Leopold. LOL.
There's gotta be a 24 business hours joke in there somewhere.

Sid

[yodermon]

1. I'm still curious who Jason's source was for that.

I still think there's more to that story than "hey let's mock Jason and Will" although that's fun too.
good times.

[SidDithers]

2. It's sometimes fun to go back through the DU archives...

and re-read the stuff that had us all jumping.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2282488



Sid