Trump's FBI doubles down on hostility to transparency, switches to fax and snailmail for FOIA requests

[davide405]

Indeed!

For the purpose of notifying a person they are being sued, we definitely want a high bar, the burden of contact should be on the person bringing suit, to prevent abuse.

But requesting information from the FBI should not be subject to the same hurdles.

IMO
IANAL
YMMV

[Old]

[hecep]

Fax and snail-mail (given the possible ‘glitches’ and inherent ‘weaknesses’), I believe, could also provide the ability to claim (however false) that any number of requests never arrived.

[Haystack]

Personally, I’m more than willing to wait an extra six years to get a more personal, hand-written FOIA denial letter from the FBI.

[Snowlark]

@lamaranagram

The goal of Democrats I think needs to change from convincing people Trump is an ass (which looks more and more like convincing cilantro haters that it’s good)

I am convinced it’s delicious based simply on all the wonderful ways people have described it. And I wish I could taste that zesty, citrusy, herbaceous awesomeness but all my miserable genes let me taste is soap.

What I hate–and I think anyone would agree with me on this with the possible exception of lutefisk lovers–is the taste of soap.

I don’t hate cilantro. I can’t hate it; I’ve never tasted how it tastes to everyone else. I never will.

I’m rambling about cilantro because I have nothing to add to your spot-on comment. Fuck the Trumpets. Rally the citizens who share your concerns but perhaps have been politically inactive, including voting. That at least is what it seems the Venezuelans have told us recently.

Okay, I guess that was adding something but it’s still just an expansion of your point.

[Wanderfound]

@lamaranagram

General observation. Trump voters don’t care. They don’t care about the big stuff or the little stuff like this. Among Republicans his approve rating is still in the 86% range. They like him. And what he’s doing. I can’t see that changing.

The goal of Democrats I think needs to change from convincing people Trump is an ass (which looks more and more like convincing cilantro haters that it’s good) and convincing other Democrats to take action – donate, bring in other Democrats and vote. Me personally I am done trying to talk people out of liking Trump. All it does is piss me off.

Agreed, with an addendum: convince other people to take action.

Half of the country are neither Trumpsters nor Democrats.

[Footface]

2019: All FOIA requests must be sent by registered carrier pigeon. Carrier pigeon registration materials must be sent by smoke signals. In Braille.

[anon63581570]

Note: please do not send black faxes. That is not condusive to anyone and is so beyond middle school.

[L_Mariachi]

@Mark_Mullin

They probably also don’t know about circa 1990 evil tricks like sending an endless series of solid black pages to a physical fax machine

The idea is to get FOIA requests to them, not to hobble their ability to receive requests more than they’re already doing to themselves.

[stanestane]

When they really decide to strangle FOIA they will start demanding that anyone asking for documents needs to fill in and deliver a hard copy of a form in person to one of the authorised offices. Then they will open 3 offices for this purpose for the whole country… And they will ask for fingerprints.

[roomwithaview]

@Wanderfound

Agreed, with an addendum: convince other people to take action.

Half of the country are neither Trumpsters nor Democrats.

Ooh, ooh, this!!!

[roomwithaview]

@singletona082

Note: please do not send black faxes. That is not condusive to anyone and is so beyond middle school.

Not to mention we want more requests to get through, not less.