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But the burden of proof should be the other way around. The agency should have to be the one to go to court for a denial, rather than the burden lying on the ci

• torstenvl 7y ago
  That's unworkable. The vast majority of records of any given agency are non-releasable. The federal courts would be inundated and/or Congress would have to set up an entire system of administrative courts just to deal with the deluge of every divorcing spouse who wants to know the balance of his or her spouse's Thrift Savings Plan and every request for an internal phone roster or personnel disciplinary files. Your proposal would effectively gut the Privacy Act.
• ceejayoz 7y ago
  That's how you get legal DDoSing. 4chan would get a few thousand people to file requests for things like "all CIA agents deployed in Russia" and trigger a billion dollars in legal fees.