Meaning of Glomar response | Babel Free

Definitions

A response by a US government agency (etc) that it can "neither confirm nor deny" the existence of (secret) information which has been asked for.

Examples

“Another legal basis for a "Glomar response" frequently available to the CIA is the provision in the current Executive Order 12356 allowing an agency to "... refuse to confirm or deny the existence or nonexistence of requested information ..."”

“If a requester knows that the CIA may use the Glomar response only for requests about covert operations, then a Glomar response to a FOIA [amounts to revealing that something exists as a covert operation].”

“As an alternative basis for its holding, the District Court held that the CIA Information Act, 50 U.S.C. § 431, permits a Glomar response only when the FOIA request relates to a covert activity.”

“1997, Ralph C. Nash, Leonard Rawicz, Intellectual Property in Government Contracts, George Washington University, Government Contracts Program This is a Glomar response, and exemption 6 must be cited in the response.”

“For example, with a "Glomar response," the agency neither confirms nor denies the existence of the requested records. Such a response is appropriate where revealing even the existence of the information would be tantamount to disclosing it.”

“A federal court in New York has ruled that the National Security Agency properly provided a Glomar response to attorneys ' requests for confirmation of whether their ...”

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