Pentagon renews effort to withhold more unclassified records

Biden administration continues what has become a seven-year annual tradition

By John M. Donnelly, Roll Call, June 10, 2021

Pentagon leaders are asking Congress to expand the kinds of unclassified information about military operations that the department can withhold from the public, continuing what has been an annual tradition for seven years and spanning three administrations.

Officials with the Pentagon general counsel’s office are requesting that the Armed Services committees, in writing the fiscal 2022 defense authorization bill, prescribe changes to the Freedom of Information Act that would limit public access to certain data.

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