Newly declassified documents reveal previously secret CIA bulk collection

Re:Newly declassified documents reveal previously secret CIA... by faeyanpiraat on Friday February 11, 2022 @05:32AM (#30299718)

> “Once an MDR request has been submitted to an agency for the review of a particular document, the agency must respond either with an approval, a denial, or the inability to confirm or deny the existence or nonexistence of the requested document.”

So you not only need to know the existence of some secret document you are interested in (how could you?), they basically have the option to simply deny it’s existence?

Is it really how it supposed to work?

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Re:Newly declassified documents reveal previously secret CIA... by ethbr0 on Friday February 11, 2022 @11:46AM (#30303571)

There's a national interest in maintaining the flexibility to refuse to confirm or deny national security issues.

Otherwise, current classified programs could simply be confirmed by a brute force request of every possible program.

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