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from FOIA officers in each of the Centers. Most of these letters
simply assert that a “thorough” search was completed, and that
“no records” responsive to plaintiff’s request were found. Only
one of the ten letters, from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
specified the particular databases that were searched, and the
actual search terms used.
In response to plaintiff’s opposition to these search
descriptions, defendant submitted additional declarations from
officials at several of the NASA Centers. See Def.’s Supp. Mem.,
Attach. 6 (Glenn Research Center); Attach. 7 (Marshall Space
Flight Center); Attach. 8 (Goddard Space Flight Center); Attach.
10 (Johnson Space Center); Attach. 11 (Dryden Research Center);
Attach. 13 (Kennedy Space Flight Center). These declarations
provide addition information about which offices conducted
searches, but most do not provide any detailed information about
particular databases or records searched, or search terms used.
Only the Marshall Space Flight Center provided a description of
the actual databases searched and search terms used, though it
lacks a description of what types of records the databases
contain. See id. Attach. 7.
Initially, plaintiff argued that defendant had provided no
declarations describing the search efforts at NASA Headquarters
during the third search. Defendant, in response, submitted a
supplemental declaration by Stephen McConnell describing those
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