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- From: Tachyon <tachyon@mindforge.com>
- Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors,alt.alien.research,alt.paranet.ufo
- Subject: Re: Brian the Believer-Bunker
- Date: Sun, 09 Jun 1996 21:05:14 -0700
- Organization: Future Primitives Consortium
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- Brian Zeiler wrote:
- >
- > Tachyon wrote:
- >
- > > Very intelligent deterrents. If it was free or very cheap, they
- > > would have every half-wit loser filing for FOIA info and they
- > > would have to fulfill these requests.
- >
- > Not really, since the majority of Americans have never even heard of the
- > Freedom of Information Act and those who have probably don't have the
- > motivation nor inclination to use it.
-
- Finding the information and doing the paperwork takes time. A simple request can
- often take 40 man-hours to fill. I've seen hundreds of hours charged for some of the
- bigger ones. This is a real nuisance if you have your regular work to fulfill. Its
- not like there is a person who has the job of fulfilling these requests. Someone has
- to stop doing their regular work to fulfill them. Just one FOIA request is a
- disruption in the workplace. At any given time, we often had a someone working on a
- FOIA request. The times that we had 2 or 3 requests gave my boss a fit. It doesn't
- require every American to be a disruption.
-
- > > Some agencies would
- > > receive truckloads of FOIA requests if they did not charge. I
- > > am not aware of an agency that does not charge for FOIA info.
- >
- > Any non-commercial request is entitled to two free hours of search time
- > and 100 pages of free copies. Furthermore, fee waiver applications may
- > also be submitted on the basis that the request contributes to public
- > knowledge of government operations and that the subject matter is worthy
- > of broad dissemination.
- >
- > > I've had to fulfill a FOIA request before. A major pain.
- >
- > For what agency?
- >
- > Brian Zeiler
-
- I used to work for an agency of DoD at what is now Lockheed-Martin Corporation.
-
-
- :::tAchyOn:::
-