Lawmaker: National Security Council should be subject to FOIA requests

Published May 9, 2016 3:53pm ET



The public should be allowed to request records belonging to the National Security Council like they do for other agencies, according to one Republican lawmaker.

Rep. Jackie Walorski, R-Ind., has introduced an amendment to the House’s National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2017 that would make all National Security Council records created after the bill is passed subject to a Freedom of Information Act request, in the latest attack against the advisory board that critics say has grown too large.

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