If you receive a Glomar response to a FOIA request, you can use that to file a Mandatory Declassification Review (MDR). You can request for the records to be declassified and challenge the classification. You have to make sure that you follow the correct procedure and appeal to the ISCAP board in time. Info on MDR appeals http://www.archives.gov/declassification/iscap/mdr-appeals.html Info on MDR http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/foia/foia_guide/foia_guide_chapter4.pdf The NSA Archive has experience in filing MDRs http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/ On a side note, the US Navy, for months, lost my FOIA request about Tor and the Navy finally transferred the request to the correct department...where it continues to languish.
On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Polity News <politynews@gmx.com> wrote:
file a Mandatory Declassification Review (MDR). You can request for the
It's amazing more people haven't found and used MDR. There are also regulations / theory that specify things must be declassified after certain time periods such as 30, 50, and lifetime years. That's at least 1965 and newer, approaching the edge of the modern spy, tech, and secrets game. Also interesting that more people haven't tried pulling the same inquiry or document a year or more apart to see if excessive to context or pointless redactions differ (whether by FOIA or MDR or both).
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