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Bookmark or Share- The Origin of the Phrase, “We Can Neither Confirm Nor Deny” - MediumYou’ve probably heard someone use the phrase, “We can neither confirm nor deny.” This non-specific saying, known as the “Glomar response,” has a fascinating history behind it, and it originated...
- Neither Confirm Nor Deny - RadiolabHow a sunken nuclear submarine, a crazy billionaire, and a mechanical claw gave birth to a phrase that has hounded journalists and lawyers for 40 years and embodies the tension between the public’s desire for transparency and the government’s need to keep secrets.
- Glomar Responses - FOIA Basics for ActivistsNeither Confirm nor Deny Your Request. We can neither confirm nor deny the existence of the information requested but, hypothetically, if such data were to exist, the subject matter would be classified, and could not be disclosed.
- We FOIA’d every agency's ‘Glomar’ responses. Here’s what we learned.A Cold War-era legal tactic to conceal information, named the "Glomar" doctrine after the ship, was coined when the CIA said it would "neither confirm nor deny" whether records existed on a 1970's mission that used the Hughes Glomar Explorer to retrieve a portion of a Soviet submarine that had sunk in the Pacific Ocean.
- “Neither Confirm Nor Deny” Before the Glomar ExplorerThat reply rejected a request stating that the CIA could “neither confirm nor deny the existence of” relevant records and noting that if any did exist, they would be exempt from release. This became known as the “Glomar response.”
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