Rep. Gregory Steube (R-Fla.) and other U.S. lawmakers are asserting that the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) refusal to provide records to The Epoch Times is illegal.
The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) states that, with exceptions, agencies that receive satisfactory records requests “shall make the records promptly available” to the requester. However, the FDA recently refused to provide the results of COVID-19 vaccine safety monitoring analysis to The Epoch Times, claiming that it couldn’t separate the results from inter-agency and intra-agency communications, which are allowed to be withheld.
