The Black Vault

The article that you have inquired about does not exist. That’s the message that the US government could be sending out to citizens seeking documents currently available through the Freedom of Information Act.

Under a new proposed plan, the government would be able to defer FOIA requests for certain documents not just by refusing them, but by making claims that the files don’t even exist. A report this week from ProPublica reveals that certain documents pertaining to law-enforcement matters or issues of national security could be just shrugged off with officials being able to lie about the existence of documents that they decide to deem as imaginary.

Full article:

http://www.theblackvault.com/m/news/vie ... egally-lie

and they wonder why entities such as Wikileaks exist

And I'll bet this will go completely unnoticed by the normal folk.

Oh well, better start forwarding the link.

From MK Ultra to WMDs, we've examples aplenty about how the government deceives it's citizenry. In this case, they've decided to do away with pretenses in general and just tell us out front they're going to lie. It seems they are getting bolder by the day about demonstrating their contempt, disdain, and disrespect for the American people. As the article mentions, they very well could have gone a different way by claiming state secrets or something, but, interestingly, chose this 'in your face' method instead. Either way I guess, it all boils down to something we definately need less of from the government these days - DECEPTION.

it sucks when someone(in this case the someone being the US government) feels they have enough power over you to not even have the politeness to fake it, even