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Vent: I just read the actual text of the 1966 Freedom of Information Act for a debate
The part about national security exemptions is only nine lines long, not the huge blanket people make it out to be. I found it on the National Archives site while looking up a point about UFO reports. Has anyone else actually read the original law, not just summaries of it?
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patriciacarr5mo ago
Seriously, I saw a whole video breaking down how often they just stamp "national security" on anything slightly awkward. It's never just nine lines worth of stuff.
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casey3935mo ago
Wow, reading the actual law text is like finding a secret cheat code. Everyone just yells about national security like it's a magic word that shuts down the whole conversation. Those nine lines are doing SO much heavy lifting for the government. It's wild how a tiny bit of text gets turned into a giant brick wall.
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shanegibson5mo ago
Yeah I read an article about how they use that phrase to block all kinds of basic info requests. It basically lets them hide anything they don't want to talk about. The whole system is built on that one vague idea.
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