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...Raging Grannies, an organization of aging activists whose chapters across the U.S. and Canada used sit-ins, songs and satire to protest the war, might not seem like the most obvious target for government surveillance. But the ACLU of Washington State filed a series of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests early Tuesday that demanded more information from the FBI and Department of Defense about what the ACLU claims is overreaching government surveillance of this group and 10 other non-violent political organizations in Washington State...
...Flesher, a retired social studies teacher from Hinsdale, Ill., had the same questions. After a recent trip to the Middle East, Flesher was curious if any of his phone calls or emails to the region are now in the NSA's database and sent a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to find out. The NSA responded that they could neither confirm nor deny that they intercepted copies of his communications. He's written an appeal and is still waiting for an answer. "It's not about getting money," said Flesher, leaning back in his gallery chair during the hearing...
...blogger and writer from Arizona named Russ Kick posted photographs of coffins containing the bodies of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan and of Columbia astronauts. The military zealously guards images of service members in coffins, but Kick pried the photos free with a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. "I read the news constantly," says Kick, "and when I see a story about the government refusing to release public documents, I automatically file an FOIA request for them." By April 23 the images had gone from Kick's blog, thememoryhole.org, to the front page of newspapers across the country...
...Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) sued the FBI last year in its quest for the source code for the Carnivore system through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), which would have enabled them to understand the degree to which Carnivore has the potential to impinge on privacy rights. But the FBI only released information on Carnivore version 1.3.4, which has reached a ripe old age and will soon be retired; there was no mention made in the report of the system capabilities of Carnivore version...
...study that formed the basis for the EPA's tightening of gasoline and clean air regulations is the center of this debate. In an effort to get the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to release data from this study, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce filed three FOIA requests last week...