This FOIA Bill of Rights can be used as a guide by both agencies and requesters and can be included into the FOIA guidance provided by the Department of Justice to agencies, and its provisions and protections even added to the FOIA statute.

In a vault at the National Security Agency lies a historical treasure: two AMPEX 1-inch open reel tapes containing a landmark lecture by Admiral Grace Hopper, a giant in the field of computer science. Yet this invaluable artifact remains inaccessible, trapped in an obsolete format that the NSA will not release, stating that the agency is unable to play it back.