45 years after the Pentagon Papers, a new challenge to government secrecy

Re:45 years after the Pentagon Papers, a new challenge to go... by linkregister on Thursday June 16, 2016 @07:15PM (#11919656)

If actually implemented, I could foresee this automation drastically helping journalism. Right now, FOIA requests require the requester to pay for the cost of research and redaction. Potentially one of these costs is going to drop. Also, automated redaction would improve the time it takes to fulfill FOIA requests.

Redaction isn't actually a difficult task, just tedious. The redactor (?) has a copy of the classification guide for that topic, and redacts anything from the document that hasn't exceeded its declassification time limit according to the guide.

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Re:45 years after the Pentagon Papers, a new challenge to go... by bpchaps on Thursday June 16, 2016 @08:21PM (#11919942)

I've submitted maybe 75 FOIA requests without a journalist exemption of any kind in the past two years and haven't had to pay a cent. Submit some damn FOIA requests!

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Re:45 years after the Pentagon Papers, a new challenge to go... by linkregister on Friday June 17, 2016 @06:56PM (#11926040)

That's awesome! I think I'll submit some this weekend!

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Re:45 years after the Pentagon Papers, a new challenge to go... by bpchaps on Friday June 17, 2016 @07:40PM (#11926208)

Kick butt! Shoot me an email at the address on my user page if you ever need any help or just want to share experiences as you go along. :)

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