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    historypunk commented on the blog post ACLU FOIAs CIA for Documents on Juan Cole

    2011-07-13 14:42:31View | Delete

    I suspect that the ACLU is filing their FOIA requests with the support and approval of Juan Cole. This means that the CIA is going to have to take it a bit more seriously particularly in light of the ACLU considerable legal firepower and willingness to use it.

    In contrast, all I am truly able to do is submit a request and then fire off an administrative appeal. This weakness gives the CIA and other agency’s a rather free hand when it comes to how they are going to handle a request.

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    historypunk commented on the blog post Is That Why We Bombed the Chinese Embassy?

    2011-01-24 14:06:07View | Delete

    This train of thought also explains why NATO bombed the Israeli, Pakistani, and Indian embassies as well. However it fails to explain why NATO bombed the embassies of Hungary, Switzerland, Spain, and Sweden, though given Sweden’s competition with American weapons makers, I can see why they have become a target.

    http://www.cdi.org/adm/1248/transcript.html