They don't cite any exemption under the Freedom of Information Act because there isn't one that applies in this case.

Police officers don't get a special set of rules. The law applies to them as it does anyone else, and that comes from a case on internal investigations.

Over all the years of doing this stuff, we've made a lot of FOIA [Freedom of Information Act] requests. I've never had someone be so reluctant to give up what's public. This is the worst example I've seen, ever, of public officials who refuse to give up public documents.

More than two years after we filed our Freedom of Information Act request, the FBI continues to withhold documents that the public clearly has a right to see. As we've been saying from the outset, the public has a right to know what the government's policies were and who put them in place.

I don't think there's a set formula that applies. I think you have to take it case by case.

I have one simple question: What is there to hide? If you can't trust the police, you might as well be in Russia or Rwanda.