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by Tomte·12y ago·view on hn ↗
Sure, you're the best in the world. Nobody else has any kind of Freedom of Information Act. And nobody else but freedom-loving Americans would ever dare to direct such a request towards his own intelligence service.

Wait, three seconds of googling resulted in https://fragdenstaat.de/files/foi/2812/antwort.pdf

And in Sweden, "Offentlighetsprincipen" is not only much older than the America FOIA (let's say... ten years older than your Declaration of Independence!), but even part of the country's constitution.