Judicial Watch announced on Dec. 4 it has filed suit in federal court seeking to force the Department of State to release documents the nonprofit government watchdog requested two months ago concerning the “untouchables” list former U.S. Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch gave Ukraine Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko in 2016.
The State Department acknowledged receiving the Judicial Watch FOIA the same day it was filed, Sept. 24. But the government has since failed to produce “the requested records or demonstrated that the requested records are lawfully exempt from production,” or informed Judicial Watch “of the scope of any responsive records they intend to produce or withhold and the reasons for any withholdings.”
