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Postscript: In October 2003, several months after the above article was posted, Allan J. Favish claimed that it constituted "deception by the United States Department of Justice." He pointed to the paragraph stating that he "proceeded to file his own FOIA request," which he viewed as "falsely" suggesting that he had not filed his own FOIA request previously. In fact, Mr. Favish filed his own FOIA request and lawsuit earlier in 1997, though several published articles and organizations' Web sites have spoken of this same chronology similarly. One, the organization for which plaintiff worked at the time, Judicial Watch, Inc., in Washington, D.C., recounted this in a "media advisory" posted on its Web site on May 6, 2003 simply as follows: "Allan J. Favish, a former Judicial Watch attorney who worked on the Accuracy in Media case, then continued the pursuit of his own lawsuit to obtain access to the photos in California . . . ." (posted 10/10/03)
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