Looks like DHS sabotaged a FOIA request on Cryptome

Michael Best themikebest at gmail.com
Fri Feb 5 12:58:13 PST 2016


I stand corrected - there was an explanation. It was buried in there and it
was bullshit and has me mad, but at least it was there. So standard FOIA
nonsense, not a new level. I can live with that.

Sorry for the false alarm.

/me wipes the egg off his face.

On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 3:52 PM, Michael Best <themikebest at gmail.com> wrote:

> I filed a FOIA request about Cryptome with DHS a while back:
>
> Any records relating to Cryptome, also known by its web address of
>> Cryptome.org, which posts pictures of sensitive sites and potential
>> security holes as described at
>> www.nytimes.com/2004/08/29/nyregion/mapping-natural-gas-lines-advise-the-public-tip-off-the-terrorists.html
>> by the New York Times.
>
>
>
> https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/cryptome-dhs-22647/
>
> Sent through MuckRock on December 1, acknowledged on December 2. Also
> closed on December 2, according to the DHS FOIA website. No notification or
> explanation provided, not through MuckRock or to me directly. I say to me
> directly because they also closed another FOIA of mine without explanation,
> insisting on opening a new one when I tried to follow up within the 30 days.
>
> http://www.dhs.gov/foia-status FOIA # *2016-HQFO-00099*
>
> Weird, right?
>
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