For years, the Pentagon sits on racial discrimination survey data SECTIONS Last Updated: Dec 18, 2020, 05:50 PM IST Share Synopsis However, the Defense Department denied repeated requests from Reuters to release the 2017 survey data, including through a Freedom of Information Act request. It has also not released a separate report about the 2017 survey data or clearly explained why the data has been withheld for so long. AP This March 27, 2008 file photo shows the Pentagon in Washington WASHINGTON: Army Sergeant Major Das'Chara Champ couldn't have known that the answer to her question about racial discrimination survey data was sitting in an office somewhere in the vast Defense Department bureaucracy.