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Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Fairbanks FOIA Request Denied

A few months back I submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to the FBI for a high-quality copy of the Evan Fairbanks audio and video tape that they confiscated from him on 9/11.

Yesterday, I finally got a response from the FBI FOIA department.

The letter said that:
the material you requested is located in an investigative file which is exempt from disclosure pursuant to Title 5, United States Code, Section 552, subsection (b)(7)(A).
So they are not denying that they have the material, but saying they won't give it out. So what is this legal excuse they give?

Title 5, United States Code, Section 552, subsection (b)(7)(A) -- this section says why certain materials may be exempt from FOIA requests--
(b)(7) records or information compiled for law enforcement purposes, but only to the extent that the production of such law enforcement records or information (A) could be reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings
Well, that's real useful. So, somehow, releasing a copy of this video is going to interfere with a future investigation? Of what? Of whom? Osama bin Laden? Yeah right.

Their exemption seems pretty bogus to me.

I'm not sure how worth it is to pursue this.

Somewhat interestingly, I got the same exact response this guy got from the FBI when he requested material relating to a bin Laden video.

5 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Maybe the Government is afraid that if the ChadShill sees that video, it will cause him to quit his Shill job.

10:25 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

here is the evan fairbanks clip, possibly the most foolish seeming of all 4 767 vs. wtc videos.

11:42 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Main japanese opposition party questions 9/11
in parliament - broadcasted on public TV

11:50 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

chad seems to be pleasantly AWOL when it comes to matters of obvious 9/11 TV fakery!

re: the video that evan fairbanks allegedly *filmed* - aside from the witness who is *reacting* to the explosion above him (why is there a monitor screen in front of him showing the very same image that fairbanks' camera was allegedly *capturing*?), why is that image af a 767 defying physics as it glides into the side of the tower?

and speaking of physics, i am still waiting for that long overdue lesson in physics that sword of *truth* threatened to give us a good year ago - could it be that sword of *truth* knows when he doesn't have a leg to stand on?
things that make you go hmmm.

7:46 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Why would you expect a paid professional propagandist operative, or even a middle-class rightwinger disinfowannabe, to be able to refute the truth?

1:51 PM  

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