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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

'Government Could Hide Existence of Records under FOIA Rule Proposal'

from propublica.........


"A proposed rule to the Freedom of Information Act would allow federal agencies to tell people requesting certain law-enforcement or national security documents that records don’t exist – even when they do.
Under current FOIA practice, the government may withhold information and issue what’s known as a Glomar denial that says it can neither confirm nor deny the existence of records"..............READ MORE

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