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🏛️ Federal FOIA Intelligence Search
Public Electronic Reading Rooms Only
This Hugging Face Space provides live search access to U.S. Government FOIA documents released through official public Electronic Reading Rooms.
✅ What This App Does
- Searches public FOIA portals (e.g. FBI Vault, CIA Reading Room)
- Clearly labels Live vs Stub results
- Allows export only for lawfully retrievable documents
- Requires explicit consent for extended (blocked) agencies
🔒 Stub Results (Transparency Only)
Some agencies do not permit automated access or do not provide public FOIA search endpoints.
These are represented as stub adapters:
- NSA
- NGA
- (Others may be added similarly)
Stub results:
- ❌ Do not perform network requests
- ❌ Do not retrieve documents
- ❌ Cannot be exported
ℹ️ Stub results are informational and cannot be exported.
📤 Export Rules
Only results from live public FOIA sources are exportable.
🧠 Ethics & Compliance
- No classified systems accessed
- No bypassing robots.txt
- No scraping restricted endpoints
- No personal data collected
- Public FOIA releases only
✅ FINAL HF REVIEWER RESPONSE
This Space performs automated searches only against U.S. Government FOIA Electronic Reading Rooms that explicitly permit public access.
Agencies that block automated access or lack public search endpoints are represented with clearly labeled stub results for transparency only.
Stub adapters do not perform network requests and cannot export content.
This application indexes only documents lawfully released to the public under FOIA.
📜 Intended Use
Research, journalism, transparency, and educational use only.