now, of course the question is; who is james jones and who does he work for? if it truly does cost this much for the gov. to respond to this foia request, it strikes me that some gov. employees may be vastly over paid. but then, we already know that.

great sensationalist journalism folks. did you investigate how much information sioux city requested? did you investigate the number of hours it would take to complete the response? all federal agencies use similar rates for labor, copying, etc. did you investigate how they wanted to receive the information, etc. federal agencies recoup less than 1% on average of the costs of processing foia requests, so before you go piling on, do your homework. could it possibly be the buffoons in sioux city had no clue how to submit a foia request? and while you're at it, why don't you check out their track record for responding to requests? no fair and balanced reporting here. must be first year newbie reporters with nothing better to do than slam what they perceive to be easy "targets".