The Senate has narrowed a broad Pentagon exemption from the Freedom of Information Act contained in the fiscal year 2012 defense authorization bill, aligning the language in the Senate bill with an earlier House-passed version and gaining the backing of open government groups. The Senate's action to conditionally exempt Defense Department critical infrastructure security information from FOIA pares back a much broader amendment that was inserted in the original version of the FY-12 defense authorization bill, which passed out of...
