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by dustyventure 526 days ago
All agencies have process for handling FOIA requests for issues that are often of a more serious nature than some data possibly arriving fresh enough for front running..
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Congress literally exempted "information that concerns the supervision of financial institutions" from FOIA [1].

[1] https://www.foia.gov/faq.html

So the other 8 types of exemptions must exempt virtually every agency with a meaningful role, but wait, no, they don't. Agencies are expected to judge every request against these exemptions.