A proposed revision to Freedom of Information Act rules would allow federal agencies to lie to citizens and reporters seeking certain records, telling them the records don’t exist.In what perverted moral system could this be defended as anything better than reprehensible?
The Justice Department has proposed the change as part of a large revision of FOIA rules for federal agencies. Specifically, the rule would direct government agencies who are denying a request under an established FOIA exemption to “respond to the request as if the excluded records did not exist,” rather than citing the relevant exemption.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
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One that elevates the state and it's unelected functionaries to the position of being the arbiters of rights, with the presumption that rights are the gifts of the State, rather than stemming either from the dignity of the human person as created by God, or fromt he will of the people, who have the titular responsibility for government, which has been usurped by the political class and their nebulous but powerful friends.
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