NORAD Not Subject To FOIA?

Why Do They Receive Taxpayer Dollars If They're Not Accountable to Americans?

copied/pasted from recent email correspondence re: FOIA request for NORAD/USSPACECOMMAND
Apollo Guardian documents.





Sent: Thu, Jun 12, 2014 1:56 pm
Subject: RE: (U) [Warning: Unsigned Attachment] FOIA Request - Addendum

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED

Mr. Green,

Questions can be directed to me.  My contact information is below.

To address your questions:
- Records do not transfer between NORAD and USNORTHCOM as the commands have 
separate and specific missions.

- Computer systems and files were not integrated for both commands as the 
commands have separate and specific missions.

- It was not a simple merger/acquisition.  A new Geographic Combatant Command 
was created with distinct mission authorities and only those documents directly 
related to USNORTHCOM missions were transferred.  The prior mission requirements 
of USSPACECOM were transferred to USSTRATCOM.

- All hard copy documents, originals and copies and exercise database records 
for USSPAECOM that existed were sent to USSTRATCOM.

- USNORTHCOM has no copies and/or files for the subject exercise.

- USNORTHCOM provided a "no records" response as no responsive records were 
found on USNORTHCOM systems of records.

 - NORAD is not subject to FOIA; therefore no systems of records search was 
conducted on NORAD systems.

Kris

KRISTINA L. ROTH, Civ, DAFC
Chief, FOIA and Privacy Act Requester Service Center NORAD and USNORTHCOM Chief 
of Staff
250 Vandenberg St, Ste B016
Peterson AFB, CO  80914-3817

Do You Know What National Security Means?

The caveat here is the harm to nation must be identified/described

National Security = defense of the nation 'or' foreign relations. In other words, in order to protect a relationship with a particular country the US government can claim it's a matter of National Security that embarrassing information about that particular country not be released. Wow! 

Only if "all" conditions are met & identified/describable

This among many other Executive Orders is used to justify prosecution of 'whistleblowers' for unauthorized disclosure

It appears maintaining relationships with foreign governments is more important than "identifying" everyone responsible for the September 11, 2001 terror attacks.

Again on the following page information "shall 'not' " be classified 'unless' harm identifiable/describable

What Did Military Officials Lie About?

Start Here January 21, 2004 9/11 Commission-SSgt. Stacie Rountree interview nara.gov/commission/mfr
Jan. 23, 2004 Col. Robert Marr -same source
Gen. Richard Myers - Feb. 17, 2004- same source

2014 FOIA Lawsuit for Release of FBI, FAA, DOD Sept. 11, 2001 Records

After years of denials, outright ignored FOIA requests and blatant violations of 5 U.S.C. 522 (the FOIA Law) a complaint was filed in Federal Court to compel release of documents sought in the FOIA requests viewable on this blog.

On June 9, 2014 my complaint was received and successfully filed. Thank you to MK for making this day possible!

Please support this effort and attend court when the date is received/announced.

Filed at Federal Court NEWARK, NJ

A website is in the works for you to be able to download a pdf copy of all documents viewed here. Please be patient as I am not a pc/tech wiz.

What Cover-Up? You Ask...

The eleven year strong Department of Justice cover-up of Israeli links to the September 11

2001 attacks. As noted in the upper left corner of the document, the FBI's High Fiver files will not be declassified until the year 2035. The FBI asserts that it is a matter of national security, in other words disclosure of Israeli 'links' to 9-11 are a threat to the American way of life.

Protecting privacy rights of foreigners linked to 9-11 while spying on/violating rights of Americans

 

these men were smiling, celebrating/hugging and high fiving each other at the sight of Americans dying

b1 = National Security so, yes the government can keep a secret

 

Secret doesn't mean no one in America knows, it merely means only 'certain select' people know


You have a right to know what the FBI knows about the Mossad spies arrested in New Jersey on September 11, 2001 who found the burning towers and death of innocent unarmed Americans to be so humorous that they celebrated, smiled and hugged one another taking pictures and video of the burning towers as their background. Laughing at a person trip and fall is one thing, but laughing at people dying posing for pictures with their death scene background is something entirely different. Classified kind of different. If the Israelis were not involved in the attacks why wait 23 more years to disclose pages of nothing that reveal nothing?

March 15, 2002 Forward -Jewish Weekly Publication available at NY Public Library

If the bomb sniffing dogs were wrong and created a false alarm why wait two decades for full disclosure?

 

  

                    Covering up the truth in the name of national defense and privacy rights.

Not The 9-11 Commission's Job

 

On Friday September 9, 2011 the Star Ledger newspaper and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center invited three former members of the 9-11 Commission, John Lehman (left), Former Chairman Tom Kean (center) and John Farmer (right corner) to speak about their work on the commission and their feelings about the approaching ten year commemoration of the attacks. Seated between former commissioners Kean and Farmer was Ms. Virginia Bauer, who lost her husband David Bauer in the 9-11 attacks.

The audience, estimated to be in the neighborhood of three hundred in attendance, applauded for the three commissioners as they occasionally hammed it up for the cameras. Each commissioner assured the audience that the U.S. government was completely unprepared for the September 11, 2001 surprise attacks. 

And then it was time for questions.

With each article in hand, I cited the stories about government whistleblowers below one by one and said to the commissioners "please stop saying that no one in the government knew about an imminent attack". Although, I'm certain that they will continue to repeat their lies at the next town they visit. After being rushed to get to my question, I asked the former 'investigators' why they did not hold anyone accountable in government for not acting on this information:

The Washington Times September 22, 2005 Page A.4

The (London) Independent Sunday June 6, 2004

The Guardian June 3, 2002

The three commissioners looked at each other, presumably to determine who would answer the question, and after pausing for a few seconds John Lehman responded:"It wasn't our job".

The room fell completely silent.

I am grateful at least that the event was streaming live over the internet because after that candid moment, commissoner Lehman proceeded to explain how the Able Danger information was vetted and that they determined that it "was of no validity"

The Boston Globe September 18, 2001 Page A. 21

I doubt I am the only one who feels that the commission's work is of no validity.

If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why people are pushing for a new investigation into the September 11, 2001 attacks, politely explain to them that three of the investigators who were given the job admitted a decade later to a room full of 300 people and who knows how many people listening and watching online that getting 'it' right wasn't their job...that's why America needs a new investigation. 

As for the Star Ledger newspaper, do you think that they informed their readers about the troubling admission from John Lehman? The answer heard 'round Jersey'...if you said yes, unfortunately you'd be wrong, not a word from the paper, and they will not release the video of Lehman's blunt remark. Ten years from now they will tell us that that candid moment did not happen. History is important...unless it's not your job.

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