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It's not like they can just take your one request and push it to the head of the line because you say it's urgent.

Everyone gets their turn.

That was not the original commenter's point at all. Doing things in sequence is fine. Doing things so slowly as to be useless is not.

You are assuming malicious intent in the duration of the backlog - which is not the case.

FOIA requests routinely take months and/or years.