A new lawsuit alleges the FBI is using antiquated computer systems to deliberately foil FOIA requests. The FBI typically conducts FOIA searches in the “universal index” portion of its legacy Automated Case Support system. Because of the limitations of that technology, those searches frequently produce no results, he says. A federal judge ruled in January that the FBIs policy is fundamentally at odds” with FOIA, a federal judge said in a related case. In that case, the FBI has argued that Shapiro’s work constitutes a threat to national security.”]