WSJ free feature: SEC Watchdog’s Data Request Snags on Fee Fight: “A government watchdog may get the SEC records it wants — but may have to pay millions of dollars for them.” At a cost of $28 per hour for research fees into documents from 26 companies, the SEC claims that a company called SEC Insight could be charged with a fee as high as $2 million to obtain the records it has sought through a FOIA lawsuit.