The difference between “agency records” under FOIA and agency “records”
under the federal record-keeping laws is far more than a technicality,
especially in the case of congressional material. The difference results
from the fact that FOIA is about *disclosure* while the record-keeping laws
are about preserving documentation.
The best explanation of the distinction comes directly from the seminal
1978 FOIA case on congressional records — cited throughout last week’s *ACLU
v. CIA* decision — *Goland v. CIA*. At issue in *Goland* was a CIA copy of
a transcript of a congressional hearing relating to the history of the CIA
that Congress had released to the CIA “for limited purposes as a reference
document only” and subject to congressional secrecy restrictions.
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