John Kerry feeling the warmth, dodges Herald’s query about FOIA request

John Kerry burned rubber as he swiftly exited a local weather dialogue at MIT avoiding a Herald reporter’s query about his lack of transparency.

The local weather envoy sprinted to a ready elevator, surrounded by bodyguards, earlier than the Herald might ask him about its overdue Freedom of Information Act request about his still-secret workplace.

Kerry and MIT president Rafael Reif, who moderated Kerry’s discuss Thursday, gave an unique interview to Bloomberg Baystate Business Hour, however in any other case didn’t communicate to any members of the media to the Herald’s data.

As the Herald has beforehand reported, Kerry’s workplace has refused to share a roster of its local weather workers and its payroll till October 2024, in response to a Herald information request filed nearly a yr in the past.

That refusal comes as U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, writing in a March 15 memo, that companies mustn’t “withhold information based merely on speculative or abstract fears or fears of embarrassment.”

Kerry’s workplace declined to talk on the file Thursday to elucidate why it received’t hand over particulars of the Climate Office.

Garland confused to Biden administration division heads that “openness should prevail” in terms of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.

U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, a Republican from Alaska, has additionally joined in on calling out Kerry for retaining particulars of his workplace workers locked up tight.