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Note, however, that FOIA legally requires the opposite approach: everything is presumed public unless there is a specific reason to withhold.
by eli 8y ago
Note, however, that FOIA legally requires the opposite approach: everything is presumed public unless there is a specific reason to withhold.
- whatshisface 8y agoYes, but if it is as all possible to say that there is a specific reason, I'm suggesting that one will probably be found. The NSA wants to be as liberal as possible with the sharpie, because even if something is of marginal importantance and will almost certainly never matter, why not redact it anyway on the off chance the analysis wasn't being paranoid enough?
- ethbro 8y agoGiven the frequency of FOIA and other requests, I'd strongly suspect the people with the most knowledge of X aren't the ones making all the redaction calls. They've got something more important to do... their job. So if you can't have enough time / attention from the person who actually knows, I'm more comfortable with a policy of over- rather than under-redaction.
- whatshisface 8y agoIndeed, it is very important to err on the side where the enemy knows as little as possible, especially when your enemy is the American public.
- mtgx 8y agoUnfortunately, you pretty much have to sue the US government every time you're looking for real transparency from the government and to make FOIA work as intended these days.