IAPP CIPP/US Practice Exam

Answer: B -  The US Supreme Court has stated that FOIA was enacted by Congress with a goal of “reach[ing] a workable balance between the right of the public to know and the need of Government”. Government needs include its interest in security.
 
The Freedom of Information Act has been relied upon by the American Civil Liberties Union to gain insight into how agencies, like the FBI, are using or (as the ACLU has suspected) abusing the use of National Security Letters to compile information on innocent Americans.