17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
You expressed interest in my FOIA request for the Clipper key database. Here's a minor update on the request. We send all our FOIA requests by registered mail, return reciept requested. According to the Post Office, NIST received our request on 28 Feb 94. This means that their response is due ten or twenty business days after that day. Based on experience, we believe that an actual timely response is unlikely; the government doesn't feel an obligation to follow the law. However, I encourage you to call or write NIST's FOIA officer (Karl Bell, Deputy Director of Administration, NIST, Building 101, Gaithersburg, Maryland) to indicate your interest in both the content and the timeliness of his response. John Gilmore gnu@toad.com