US: Rule Change Would Allow Government to Lie About Whether Records Exist, page

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Your Freedom Of Information Act request may be about to hit a dead end.

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.

The new proposal - part of a lengthy rule revision by the Department of Justice - would direct government agencies to "respond to the request as if the excluded records did not exist."

Open-government groups object.

"We don't believe the statute allows the government to lie to FOIA requesters," said Mike German, senior policy counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, which opposes the provision.

While I am sure they deny certain items exist anyways, this is making so that it will for sure become common practice. Really the government does nothing but lie anyways, this is just making it legal.

They have denied the existence of area 51 for how long? You could be sitting at the gates looking towards the military base and they would still deny it existed. What idiots...

So now not only do they lie, they make it legal for them to lie........

Any thoughts?

Pred...

reply to post by predator0187

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Slime. Utter and complete slime.

I just luuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuvthis whole "transperency" thing.

reply to post by ArrowsNV

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I would trust a hooker off 4th St more than I would trust the US Govt....

Lol at that!!

I'm sure it has been going on from the outset, just putting it into legislation that is all.

FOIA, really? With the amount of secrecy involved in running a country? I fear not!!

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