Can anyone decode the significance of this tweet, re FOIA, Guiliani?

[yodermon]

GLOMAR being "we can neither confirm nor deny the existence of subject"

Link to tweet

FBI just informed me it is no longer Glomar-ing our FOIA litigation request for @LouiseMensch re investigations into leaks to Rudy Giuliani.

ON EDIT: found this link just after submitting.
https://patribotics.blog/2017/05/15/exclusive-fbi-no-longer-glomar-ing-on-politicized-leaks-to-giuliani/

[Phoenix61]

1. My guess

It means they will process the request and we will learn if there is or is not an investigation. Just have to wait and see.

[yodermon]

2. thanks. see link in my OP edit n/t

[Madam45for2923]

3. Sounds like they finished the investigation and are ready to do something one way or another

and therefore ready to answer Q's with straight answers.

[Zoonart]

4. Welllll...................

When discussing Freedom of Information Acts (FOIA)" Glomar" means to "neither confirm or deny".
So I guess that means confirmation? Don't know.

[onenote]

5. It doesn't necessarily mean confirmation that the requested documents exist

It simply means that they no longer are refusing to say whether or not they exist. And even if they are implicitly acknowledging that they exist, it doesn't mean that they have to release them if one of the FOIA exemptions applies.

[Zoonart]

11. Thanks...

for clearing that up.

[Orrex]

7. I thought that Glomar was an oceanographic drilling ship (nt)

[onenote]

8. It was. And a case involving it is what led to the term "Glomar-ize"

[Orrex]

10. Wow--just Wiki'ed it.

Interesting, if somewhat dark, etymology!

[GliderGuider]

6. After Comey informed Congress there was such an investigation

Glomar became moot. So now they can answer. But what they will probably say is the docs are all exempt at this time because of FOIA Exemption 7(A):

https://www.justice.gov/oip/foia-guide-2004-edition-exemption-7a

[onenote]

9. +1