He said: "It is important that the public and parliamentarians get statistics on the number of times it is being used and how it is being used without journalists having to submit freedom of information requests.
But the department did invite VICE News to submit a Freedom of Information request on the matter, so that GCHQ could formally decline the Freedom of Information request, on the grounds that GCHQ is not obliged to respond to Freedom of Information requests.
The UN refuses to submit to freedom of information requests, drawing a veil of unaccountability over its inertia and inadequacies.
As a freelance journalist I made repeated requests over the past year to report on the funds work in the field but was continually denied access by the press office, leading me in the end to submit a freedom of information request.
Friday is the deadline to submit bids for Freedom's assets ahead of a bankruptcy auction scheduled for Wednesday.
"Oh, we shall convince them that they will only become free when they resign their freedom to us, and submit to us," says the Inquisitor.
"His endorsement of freedom to marry, I would submit, has done more than any politician other than Barack Obama," Mr. James said.
Charter schools, state-financed, privately run alternatives to traditional public schools, have unusual freedom to operate, but they must submit to periodic and grueling review.
And for all our boasts of wealth and freedom we are submitting to deprivation and coercion in order to feed and increase it".
The case has prompted an outcry from rights advocates; on Monday, an American organization, Freedom Now, submitted an appeal on his behalf to the United Nations special rapporteur on torture.
