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]NSA: Responding To This FOIA Request Would Help 'Our AdversariesShortly after the Guardian and Washington Post published their Verizon and PRISM stories, I filed a freedom of information request with the NSA seeking any personal data the agency has about me. I didn't expect an answer, but yesterday I received a letter signed by Pamela Phillips, the Chief FOIA Officer at the agency (which really freaked out my wife when she picked up our mail).
The letter, a denial, includes what is known as a Glomar response -- neither a confirmation nor a denial that the agency has my metadata. It also warns that any response would help "our adversaries":
Any positive or negative response on a request-by-request basis would allow our adversaries to accumulate information and draw conclusions about the NSA's technical capabilities, sources, and methods.
Our adversaries are likely to evaluate all public responses related to these programs.
Were we to provide positive or negative responses to requests such as yours, our adversaries' compilation of the information provided would reasonably be expected to cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/25/nsa-foia_n_3498749.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)All us dirty hippies.
I filed one about 5 years ago with the FBI, and never heard a word. Actually I did. They said I had to file another paper, which I did, and heard nothing.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)xtraxritical
(3,576 posts)MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)Ugh.
OilemFirchen
(7,143 posts)Bet that's never happened before.
Dunno why the author penned this, as it isn't newsworthy, nor does it add anything to the conversation. But it does offer up a bit more ad space, so there's that.
BTW, there is legal redress:
FOIA Appeals & Litigation
Maybe Jeff Larson will write a bit about that as well.
librechik
(30,674 posts)but no thanks for the snotty attitude. Please keep it off my forum. Just asking.
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librechik
(30,674 posts)actually, it arrived a long time ago. Just a lot of people became aware of it all at once.
Maybe now we can get a real discussion going. Unfortunately Our Dear Leaders have had all the time they needed to make it impossible to reverse here in the States.
NoPasaran
(17,291 posts)We figured if you asked the FBI for your file and they didn't have one already, they would start one.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)they make a file and put the letter in it.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)siligut
(12,272 posts)No really, they need to start charging us for wasting their time as we inquire about how our privacy is being invaded. Who are we to make demands on them?
And they must keep repeating this about the metadata:
Of course the response excludes anything about National Defense Authorization Act of 2014, which will in fact allow analysis of any and all metadata.
http://truth-out.org/news/item/17070-indefinite-surveillance-say-hello-to-the-national-defense-authorization-act-of-2014
More here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023057822
mike_c
(36,281 posts)Our "adversaries." Entrenched power paranoia sees them everywhere. Have you checked under your bed this hour, citizen?
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)He didn't even get a redacted page.. Actually the censorship on FOIA is atrocious since almost everything is secret now. Believe me I've tried.
Catherina
(35,568 posts)You're not supposed to know you're under investigation and you're not supposed to know what they have on you. These people are unbelievable.
Jacob Appelbaum Questions FBI on National Security Letters
DirkGently
(12,151 posts)... that might cause people to object to the screwing, which might interfere with the screwing.
Got it.
Jesus.
TheKentuckian
(25,026 posts)yalcindor
(1 post)Hi,
I'm Yamiche Alcindor, a reporter with USA Today. I'm interested in speaking with people who have filed FOIA requests with the NSA. I would be interested in speaking about your experience. Is it possible for you to email me and talk about your request?
Thanks,
Yamiche Alcindor
National Reporter, USA Today
Email: yalcindor@usatoday.com