• RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world
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    Yawn.

    FOIAs are an objective good

    This is an attempt to demonize one of the most powerful ways to hold governments and the corporations they regulate accountable.

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      As soon as I read the title I thought “that sounds like something a shady politician would make a talking point in preparation to try and get rid of FOIA so they can do even more shady shit…”

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        “Would you declassify the 9/11 files?”

        “Yeah.”

        "Would you declassify the JFK files?

        “Yeah, I did a lot of it.”

        “Would you declassify the epstein files?”

        “…Yeah… yeah… I would… I guess… that less so… because you don’t want to affect people’s lives if there’s phony stuff in there… because you know… you don’t know… there’s a lot of phony stuff in that whole world…”