{"id":11799,"date":"2011-10-26T10:02:27","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T14:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=11799"},"modified":"2011-10-26T11:18:52","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T15:18:52","slug":"giving-the-government-even-more-weasel-room-on-foia-requests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/10\/26\/giving-the-government-even-more-weasel-room-on-foia-requests\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving the government even more weasel-room on FOIA requests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A proposed rule change would allow the US government and its agencies to <a href=\"http:\/\/motherjones.com\/politics\/2011\/10\/foia-rule-change-government-lie-about-records\" target=\"_blank\">lie about the very existence<\/a> of requested records in Freedom of Information Act requests:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>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&#8217;t exist &mdash; even when they do.<\/p>\n<p>Under current FOIA practice, the government may withhold information and issue what&#8217;s known as a Glomar denial that says it can neither confirm nor deny the existence of records.<\/p>\n<p>The new proposal &mdash; part of a lengthy rule revision by the Department of Justice &mdash; would direct government agencies to &#8220;respond to the request as if the excluded records did not exist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A proposed rule change would allow the US government and its agencies to lie about the very existence of requested records in Freedom of Information Act requests: 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&#8217;t exist &mdash; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,84,10,13],"tags":[382,282,388],"class_list":["post-11799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-government","category-liberty","category-usa","tag-cia","tag-fbi","tag-secrecy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-34j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11799"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11801,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11799\/revisions\/11801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}