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FOIA News: FOIA Advisory Committee passes "Don't Say Glomar" proposal

FOIA News (2015-2023)Kevin SchmidtComment

The Department of Justice should advise federal agencies to stop using the word “Glomar” and replace it with “neither confirm nor deny” (NCND), according to one of four Glomar-related recommendations adopted by the federal FOIA Advisory Committee on March 10, 2022. The director of DOJ’s Office of Information Policy expressed skepticism about canceling the four decades-old term of art, but he abstained from the vote. Four committee members voted against the proposal.