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…”
“…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…”
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.
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…”
“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…”