Requests for files from the government become part of the dossiers.
Well beyond the old disarming joke about it.
FOIA requests are used to spread disinformation of highly selective
releases -- comparable to radioisotope tracing.
Little credible information is available through such means.
Agencies gather information under guise of reluctantly providing it.
And the more secret the agency the more assurance misleading
information will be given to the public to track what use is made
of it.
Anything useful to outsiders is exempted, or most often simply
denied existence -- lawsuits to force release are charades.
Hiding government information should be a high crime and
misdemeanor but FOIA procedures have become the favorite
tool of government worldwide to misinform -- truthiness, or more
correctly, official lying, way beyond dissimulation.
Not a single government web site or FOIA office tells the truth.
What they gather are data to support budget requests for
increased secrecy.
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