Transparency Advocates Respond to Senator’s Demand for FOIA Audit at NIH

Published on June 21, 2024

Sen. Roger Marshall may not get the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) compliance audit of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) he demands, but the Kansas Republican could still be cracking open the door to a new era in government transparency. As The Epoch Times reported June 17, Mr. Marshall told the inspector general at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) he wants the internal government watchdog to dig up every fact, good or bad, about how NIH has complied with the federal transparency law going back all the way to 2014. Doing such audits is not in the HHS inspector general’s job description, but the revelation of recent FOIA violations by a host of top NIH officials merits extraordinary measures, according to a close adviser to the senator who asked not to be identified....

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