The United States Freedom of Information Act, is applicable against public authorities, in which that government of, by, and for the people, has the right to access such pertinent information as held by those authorities on behalf of the people, so that the people will have appropriate knowledge of that which it government does, good or bad, right or wrong. One of those things, that the people have the rightful need to know, is information about military engagements that this country engages in with a myriad of opponents, all over the globe. The problem that occurs at the present time, in regards to that needful information, is that despite the fact that the military personnel of America has an abundance of both soldiers and military resources of all sorts, it also, far more often then it should, outsources a great deal of its military adventures or misadventures to private contractors and even more chilling, subcontractors to those private contractors.
The reason that private contractors engaging in military adventures is especially of concern to these citizens of the United States, is that unlike federal actions and federal activities, those that are private contractors to those federal departments, are not susceptible to the Freedom of Information Act by the public, through the subterfuge of availing themselves of the excuse that such that they are doing is proprietary information or other questionable excuses. While there may well be legitimate reasons why private contractors would not want to release information in regards to what they are doing overseas in support of our military affairs; it must be said that military activities that are hidden from the public view, of which the military-industrial-technology complex for a certainty knows that they cannot be compelled by law to release this information about those private contractors are going to be prone to abuses of all sorts, and lend itself to activities that the military-industrial-technology complex would not want to directly participate in -- which thereby really says it all.
There should not be two different military-industrial-technology complexes within America; of which one is ultimately held accountable to the people, whereas the other, lead by private contractors and subcontractors to those private contractors, is not. What has occurred in the present situation is that the dirtiest deeds, the deeds that those in the know do not wish to voluntarily divulge are outsourced to those private contractors, so that all sorts of questionable activities are done in the shadows, never to be fully disclosed to American citizens.
The Freedom of Information Act was passed in order to provide more transparency to the American public, for the government of this country is not set above the people, but is part and parcel of the people. Not too surprisingly, governmental institutions, and especially military ones, find it much easier to conduct activities of questionable nature, or even an illegal nature, when they are able to find an avenue in which what they are doing is controlled by that institution and what is known, is only provided on a "need to know" basis. The bottom line is that because private contractors are the way for the military-industrial-technology complex to avert transparency, then the law either needs to be amended to preclude this, or private contractors should be eliminated from the military-industrial-technology complex; especially in consideration that each year, more and more "work" gets outsourced, to those private contractors, of which American citizens are not provided a fair vetting of what they are actually doing in their name, while representing the red, white, and blue.