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Yes, there are specific exemptions, but a properly worded FOIA request should be able to maneuver around them. For example, Exemption 7[1] would protect "from d
by showmeevidence 10y ago
Yes, there are specific exemptions, but a properly worded FOIA request should be able to maneuver around them. For example, Exemption 7[1] would protect "from disclosure information which would reveal techniques and procedures for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions or that would disclose guidelines for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions if disclosure of the information could reasonably be expected to risk circumvention of the law," but a properly worded request would seek the information that those techniques uncovered, not the techniques themselves.
1: http://www.foiadvocates.com/exemptions.html http://www.foiadvocates.com/exemptions.html
- tptacek 10y agoYou are not going to be able to use FOIA to discover national security secrets, no matter how carefully you word the requests. By all means, try, but you're trying to use FOIA to uncover literally the exact kinds of information the law excludes from FOIA.
- showmeevidence 10y agoThis is predicated on the evidence, should it exist, of a Russia-backed security incursion being classified a national security secret. While such a hypothetical claim would have questionable value, would it be worth classifying a bit of information, say, like "the attack ingress point was IP address x.x.x.x, which is owned by Russian military?"
- nl 10y agoOf course it is classified. And of course no state backed actor is going to use a military owned IP. And there won't be one single source of evidence which points to it, it will be hundreds of small circumstantial points which taken together point to the conclusion. Those won't ever be released because they will give away sources and techniques.