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> “Once an MDR request has been submitted to an agency for the review of a particular document, the agency must respond either with an approval, a denial, or th
by faeyanpiraat 5y ago
> “Once an MDR request has been submitted to an agency for the review of a particular document, the agency must respond either with an approval, a denial, or the inability to confirm or deny the existence or nonexistence of the requested document.”
So you not only need to know the existence of some secret document you are interested in (how could you?), they basically have the option to simply deny it’s existence?
Is it really how it supposed to work?
- ethbr0 5y agoThere's a national interest in maintaining the flexibility to refuse to confirm or deny national security issues. Otherwise, current classified programs could simply be confirmed by a brute force request of every possible program.