US/Freedom of Information Act

The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. § 552, was a federal freedom of information law that allowed for the full or partial disclosure of previously unreleased information and documents controlled by the United States government. The act still exists, and FOIA requests are still filed, by after September 11^th, 2001, John Young reports increasing stonewalling by government officials and almost no information of value. He said in 2013 that he thinks that "the FOIA system should be closed as a money-wasting fraud."

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