Saturday, February 03, 2007

FOIA Fun

Much respect to the the reporters committee for freedom of the press for their kickass FOIA letter generator .


FOIA/PA Mail Referral Unit
Department of Justice
Room 114, LOC
Washington, DC 20530-0001

Dear FOI Officer:

Pursuant to the federal Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552, I request access to and copies of Any and all documents (including but not limited to) memos, electronic mail, presentations, briefings, meeting notes, guidelines and policies relating to "Tor", "onion routing", "onion router", and "anonymous/anonymizing proxy/proxies" . I am interested in anything that matches this description between the dates 01/01/2002 and 02/01/2007.

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Transportation Security Administration
TSA-20, West Tower
FOIA Division
601 South 12th Street
Arlington, VA 22202-4220

Dear FOI Officer:



Pursuant to the federal Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552, I request access to and copies of All documents including but not limited to) memos, electronic mail, presentations, briefings, meeting notes, guidelines and policies relating to the storage and or data deletion policies for the data from chemical/explosive analysis of passengers, passengers bags, items and personal possessions. In particular, I am requesting information on how long TSA keeps the data generated by the machines that perform the explosive residue analysis on the swabs that TSA agents wipe on passenger's bags/objects. I am also requesting information on how long data is kept from the "puffer" machines used by TSA (these are typically made by either GE or Smiths), which shoot air at passengers and then analyze the particles that are dislodged. In addition to this data, I also request any and all information relating to how the information is matched or associated to specific passengers, in what format, and held in what databases, if it is at all. The scope of this request is for all information matching this description between the dates of 01/01/2003 and 02/01/2007.

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