With the news that President Obama has decided not to release photos of Osama bin Laden’s corpse, twitter has been aflutter asking if the documents can be released under FOIA. Gawker has a pretty good piece quoting Daniel Metcalfe, the former chief of the Department of Justice’s Office of Information and Privacy –essentially the US government’s number one Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) official– as saying, “If someone brought a FOIA complaint seeking the photo, and the government had improperly classified it, I think the government would lose.”
But in my opinion, that doesn’t mean that the documents will be released. Here’s why. (more…)
