It's not just lying to the public - in one case, they lied to a judge handling a FOIA request case (to be clear, the article does not suggest that this would be

It's not just lying to the public - in one case, they lied to a judge handling a FOIA request case (to be clear, the article does not suggest that this would be legal under the new rule): > In a recent case brought by the ACLU (...) the FBI denied the existence of documents. But the court later discovered that the documents did exist. (...) [the] Judge (...) wrote that the “Government cannot, under any circumstance, affirmatively mislead the Court.” It's pretty clear that a select few documents should not be released. It's much less clear that they should not even be released to the judge.