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FOIA News: ICYMI, orgs ask House to nix DOD's proposed FOIA exemption

In a letter dated April 14, 2020, twenty-five organizations urged the House Armed Services Committee to reject a proposal in an appropriation bill that would exempt from FOIA “information on military tactics, techniques, and procedures, and of military rules of engagement.” This is the sixth time that the Pentagon has attempted to include similar language in appropriations bills since 2011.