Obviously the only way we are going to get information out of the US Government is if concerned citizens turnover information for publication via organizations like Wikileaks. It seems what FOIA requests resolve to at this point is Requesters pointing the Government to information they didn't even know they had, which allows the Gov to obfuscate or delay the release of requested information. So, in a very odd Catch-22 way, the Requesters are insuring their access to information being blocked merely by requesting it from an agency that didn't even know they had it to start with.
That's why anonymous dumps of data resolves to a more effective way to get access to the arcana of the US Government, sadly.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
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