Yep. It's a very clean, powerful and well thought out API. And I'm saying that coming from a place of love towards unix and its pipes. I'd almost argue it's better than the unix model. Almost.

Been able to give poweshell commands in FOIA litigation and its power is on full display with one liners where it's hard for a gov agency to say no to something so simple.

That’s really interesting; how do you use powershell in that context? I’m assume it isn’t just

Here’s FOIA request for the output of the command

find /home/jbiden -name “*secret*doc”

haha.

It was most notably helpful in litigation against the White House Office of Management and Budget. Was suing for one week of email metadata records (to, from, CC, bcc, time, date) in the last week of Jan 2017. They said that they had no way to complete the request. So we sent them multiple one liners that extracts the info from outlook 365, which pipes it to a csv export command. They told us that they didn't run that sort of command as a routine practice, but we found a separate lawsuit that found emails of the exact command we were asking them to run.

This deserves a thread of its own! Is there any coverage of this case?

I need to write about it ;). We won that case just before the last election and unfortunately other things took priority at the time. But it'll happen. Just first need to write about my IL supreme Court loss...

I would love to read about stuff like this. I hope you'll post here when you eventually write it up.

This might quench your thirst in the meantime!

https://mchap.io/that-time-the-city-of-seattle-accidentally-...

That sounds like a joke from archer:

White House: We can’t do that.

Litigator: Can’t or won’t?

White House: either!

Cool