IRS achieves a new milestone in FOIA denial: the password-protected Glomar
By JPat Brown, Muckrock, Mar. 28, 2017
Two years ago, we wrote about the IRS giving us one of our most infamous FOIA responses - an encrypted CD full of entirely redacted documents. Now, just a couple days before Tax Day, the agency does it again, reaching new heights of frustration with our first password-protected Glomar rejection.
In response to a request for financial investigations into three Ukrainian nationals, the IRS responded with a .pdf. Trying to open the .pdf yielded this:
Read more (and see the document) here.