FBI Hardy March 11, 2008
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March 22, 2008 14:43
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Wednesday May 14, 2008 09:57
Wednesday May 14, 2008 09:38
Thursday May 8, 2008 13:44 -----Original Message----- |
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![]() ![]() ![]() U.S. Department of Justice Office of Information and Privacy You appealed from the action of the Headquarters Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation pursuant to your request for access to records pertaining to yourself. After carefully considering your appeal, I am affirming the FBI's action on your request. The records responsive to your request are exempt from the access provision of the Privacy Act of 1974 pursuant to 5 U.S.C. § 552a(j)(2). See 28 C.F.R. § 16.96(a) (2007). Because these records are not available to you under the Privacy Act, your request has been reviewed under the Freedom of Information Act in order to afford you the greatest possible access to them. The FBI properly withheld certain information that is protected from disclosure under the FOIA pursuant to: 5 U.S.C. § 552(b)(2), which concerns matters that are related solely to internal agency practices; ,: Please note that we have considered only your written appeal dated March 22, 2008. I note that you posted additional information on your internet Web site. However, this Office can accept and adjudicate only those appeals that have been delivered in writing. See Center for Public Integrity v. HHS. No. 06-1818, 2007 WL 2248071 (D.D.C. August 3, 2007). If you are dissatisfied with my action on your appeal, you
may file a lawsuit in accordance with 5 U.S.C. § 552(a)(4)(B).
Janice Galli McLeod |
Thursday April 3, 2008 13:39![]() ![]() Note that we are at the Director's office. We were only at the co-director's office in 2006. Julia Eichhorst Friday February 29, 2008 phone message. ![]() ![]() ![]() |
| Saturday March 22, 2008 14:55 http://www.prosefights.org/nmlegal/fbifoia/fbiletter4/letter.htm#director Certified return receipt requested and julia.eichhorst@ic.fbi.gov FOIPA number 1090404 Director Office of Information and Privacy U.S. Department of Justice 1425 New York Ave., NW, Suite 11050 Washington, D.C. 20530-0001 Dear Director: I read
in the below ![]() ![]() FOIA response letter. I appeal denial of release of all of the documents sent to the FBI by Sandia National Laboratory Manager James Gosler and those returned by NSA which are identified in the Wayne Gilbert letter. ![]() I though that I explained this in my Wednesday December 20, 2006 13:21 appeal letter to the codirector which is seen at http://www.prosefights.org/nmlegal/fbifoia/fbiletter3/letter.htm#codirector. My impression from a phone message left me by Ms Julia Eichhorst. Listen http://www.prosefights.org/nmlegal/fbifoia/mueller/eichhorstrelease.wav and see what your impression is. I've requested mandatory declassification review of all of these documents. So I ask that you identify all of these documents in the FBI's possession and send them to me. I ask that "determination" on the be made on merits of a FOIA appeal within 20 working days of receipt. 5 U.S.C. § 552(a)(6)(A)(ii). Sincerely, William H Payne 13015 Calle De Sandias NE Albuquerque, NM 87111 bpayne37@comcast.net 505-292-7037 Distribution bill.leonard@nara.gov gregory.pannoni@nara.gov foialo@nsa.gov the.secretary@hq.doe.gov alexander.morris@hq.doe.gov jim.kovakas@usdoj.gov mainewayne@msn.com pacer@psc.uscourts.gov |
| -----Original Message----- From: Dave McCoy [mailto:dave@radfreenm.org] Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 3:22 PM To: dave@radfreenm.org Subject: FW: Citizen Action Federal FOIA Lawsuit Victory P R E S S R E L E A S E Date: April 1, 2008 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Citizen Group Wins Federal Lawsuit
Against Citizen Action, a public interest group, received a victory in a federal lawsuit against the National Nuclear Security Agency/Albuquerque Operations Office (NNSA) for engaging in a continuing pattern and practice of unlawful delay in furnishing documents under the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The decision by U.S. District Court Judge Robert C. Brack states that In light of the Kafkaesque review process adopted by Defendant, it is not surprising that the delay in this case stretched many months beyond the statutorily-prescribed time frame. The decision describes a labyrinthine process for reviewing FOIA requests that does not justify the delays even for situations involving national security, sensational, or complex issues. The decision orders an agreement to be made between DOE and Citizen Action within 30 days for responding to pending requests and for processing future requests. Citizen Action Attorney Richard Mietz, Santa Fe stated, This is a complete vindication of my clients right to receive information under the FOIA in a timely manner. This is the second time in a year that Mr. Mietz has successfully persuaded a federal judge that the Albuquerque NNSA office engages in a pattern and practice of unlawful delay when responding to citizen requests for information about the nations nuclear weapons facilities. The documents sought by Citizen Action seek a wide range of information about Sandia National Laboratories. Dating from requests going back to 2004, these include: Ten-Year Site Plans for future activities at Sandia National Laboratories High level radioactive waste and release of contamination from nuclear weapons production buried in a Cold War waste site known as the Mixed Waste Landfill and many illegal dumpsites referred to as Yardholes scattered about Sandia Environmental information about groundwater monitoring, air monitoring, earthquake faulting, radioactive contamination of plants and animals at Sandia Citizen Action Director, Dave McCoy stated, This decision should send a strong message to NNSAs management that NNSA can no longer use delay to create secrecy about Sandias dangerous operations. This decision acknowledges that provision of information may be useless if it is not timely. The public needs to obtain information for commenting on Sandias current plans. There is a Sandia facility wide permit request pending approval. That would include: open air burning of high explosive wastes; production of neutron generator tubes that leak tritium without air monitoring; leaving radioactive and toxic waste contamination in place without monitoring groundwater over our drinking water, and; Sandias plans for future nuclear weapons related production that will generate hundreds of thousands of pounds of hazardous and radioactive waste. The decision also builds on and goes beyond an earlier federal FOIA decision in favor of Nuclear Watch in Santa Fe. The Citizen Action decision sets forth a requirement to avoid future violations and to timely furnish the documents from over ten outstanding Citizen Action FOIA requests. Judge Brack cited language from the Nuclear Watch case that observed this process makes a mockery of the 20-day target set by FOIA and violates congressional intent. Citizen Action continues to also battle with the New Mexico Environment Department lawsuit to obtain a 2006 TechLaw report about contamination at the MWL. The Environment Department is suing Citizen Action in state court to keep the report secret. McCoy said, One can only question what the Environment Department hopes to achieve by suing a public interest organization instead of the polluter. The New Mexico Supreme Court recently denied a request for a stay on the release of the TechLaw report to the Attorney General and Citizen Actions attorney. |