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![Quoth the █████: Read the CIA’s declassified computer-themed Edgar Allan Poe parody](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2019/02/01/Poe.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
Quoth the █████: Read the CIA’s declassified computer-themed Edgar Allan Poe parody
In the eerie depths of the Central Intelligence Agency’s declassified archives, a document came rapping, rapping at our browser window. “POEDGR,” the Agency’s computer-themed “The Raven” parody which might be the first poem to have its rhyme scheme thrown off by a FOIA exemption.
![Nine Days of FOIA Exemptions: b(3)](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2018/03/01/foldercov.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
Nine Days of FOIA Exemptions: b(3)
With Sunshine Week just around the corner, we wanted to count down the days to our favorite time of year with a closer look at what’s going on behind the black bars: the nine federal FOIA exemptions. Today, one of the more frustrating exemptions: b(3), the “No Homers” exemption.
![CIA came up with 126 reasons to deny your FOIA request](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2017/07/05/TopSecret.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
CIA came up with 126 reasons to deny your FOIA request
Driven by its never-ending desire to have greater control of what information about its activities are made public, CIA drafted a SECRET report listing 126 things that the Agency could use to argue something was subject to the sources and methods protections. While the list has been used to help justify a number of FOIA withholdings, the list itself has been withheld … to protect the Agency’s intelligence sources and methods.
2 Requests
Awaiting Appeal
Jason Smathers sent this request to the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States of America
Rejected
Jason Smathers sent this request to the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States of America