Inquiry re. how to handle Glomar reply to FOIA request

[The Doctor]

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On 07/08/2015 12:50 AM, coderman wrote:

> this is waaaay too wordy. one thing i've learned, is to keep any 
> request as short, and laser guided as possible.  some agencies
> will find whatever excuse they can to deny a request, and if one
> element of

The FBI and the Air Force have been known to tack on additional
keywords with Boolean ANDs to FOIA requests specifically to make them
so narrow that they won't match.

Typically, overbroad requests will get kicked back as being such and
you'll have to refile with more specific search terms.

> your query falls into the deny bin they'll send the whole thing
> back or deny outright as "unreasonable".

Yup.

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