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Re:FOIA Improvement Act Signed into Law by Zigurd on Saturday July 02, 2016 @01:57PM (#12023271)
> My point is that I believe the public interest is best served by a balance between "the public knows how this business was conducted" vs "any rival who wants my job can dig through everything I've done to find some dirt of me."

Was that ever a standard for exemption from FOIA? Much less the intent of anyone writing any part of FOIA? Stupidity should hurt.

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Re:FOIA Improvement Act Signed into Law by ethbro on Saturday July 02, 2016 @07:16PM (#12024151)
Your original point was that "99.999% [of FOIA exemptions are] ass-coverage through secrecy" and that's a bad thing. I disagree for the reasons I specified.

If stupidity were cause for dismissal, we'd have a hard time staffing most of the jobs in the world.

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