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Here's how I interpreted the letter: "We cannot confirm or deny the thing you requested exists because that thing you requested is classified". Unless all FOIA
by jsmcgd 13y ago
Here's how I interpreted the letter: "We cannot confirm or deny the thing you requested exists because that thing you requested is classified". Unless all FOIA fail, it seems to me, in some broad sense, that they just confirmed the existence of the requested material.
- ethomson 13y agoI'm pretty sure that actually means that even the knowledge of existence is classified, as per the "details about them remain classified and/or protected from release..."
- vorporeal 13y agoI think it's more of "The information you requested, were it to exist, would be highly classified (due to its type), and therefore we can neither confirm nor deny its existence."
- ctdonath 13y agoRead as "We cannot confirm or deny the thing you requested exists because if it exists/existed it would be classified, and that includes your request of whether it exists."
- SCAQTony 13y agoI read it this way: "we are asserting our 5th amendment right to neither confirm or deny we violated your 4th and 5th amendment rights so you can't sue us and have some uppity judge make us follow the law."