FBI Protecting bin Laden's "Right to Privacy?"

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Posted by MisterOpus1 on Apr-25-2005 13:56:

FBI Protecting bin Laden's "Right to Privacy?"

Well thank fucking Christ we're seeing our government giving SOME folks a little protection around here! Whew, for a second there I thought all that "hype" about the "Patriot Act" this and the "Republicans invading your privacy" that was for real.

Well guess what? If bin Laden's right to privacy is being protected by our government, don't cha think YOUR right to privacy is being protected too? Take that all you Commie bastards!:

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FBI PROTECTS OSAMA BIN LADEN�S �RIGHT TO PRIVACY� IN DOCUMENT RELEASE

Judicial Watch Investigation Uncovers FBI Documents Concerning Bin Laden Family and Post-9/11 Flights

(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest group that fights government corruption, announced today that it has obtained documents through the Freedom of Information Act (�FOIA�) in which the Federal Bureau of Investigation (�FBI�) has invoked privacy right protections on behalf of al Qaeda terror leader Osama bin Laden. In a September 24, 2003 declassified �Secret� FBI report obtained by Judicial Watch, the FBI invoked Exemption 6 under FOIA law on behalf of bin Laden, which permits the government to withhold all information about U.S. persons in �personnel and medical files and similar files� when the disclosure of such information �would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.� (5 U.S.C. � 552(b)(6) (2000))

Before invoking privacy protections for Osama bin Laden under Exemption 6, the FBI should have conducted a balancing �test� of the public's right to disclosure against the individual's right to privacy. Many of the references in the redacted documents cite publicly available news articles from sources such as The Washington Post and Associated Press. Based on its analysis of the news stories cited in the FBI report, Judicial Watch was able to determine that bin Laden�s name was redacted from the document, including newspaper headlines in the footnoted citations.

�It is dumbfounding that the United States government has placed a higher priority on the supposed privacy rights of Osama bin Laden than the public�s right to know what happened in the days following the September 11 terrorist attacks,� said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. �It is difficult for me to imagine a greater insult to the American people, especially those whose loved ones were murdered by bin Laden on that day.�

The redacted documents were obtained by Judicial Watch under the provisions of the FOIA and through ongoing litigation (Judicial Watch v. Department of Homeland Security & Federal Bureau of Investigation, No. 04-1643 (RWR)). Among the documents was a declassified �Secret� FBI report, dated September 24, 2003, entitled: �Response to October 2003 Vanity Fair Article (Re: [Redacted] Family Departures After 9/11/2001).� Judicial Watch filed its original FOIA request on October 7, 2003. The full text of the report and related documents are available on the Internet by clicking here (Adobe Acrobat Reader required).

http://www.judicialwatch.org/printer_5286.shtml

Oh yeah, BTW, why is our government protecting the guy who attacked us on our soil, and who brutally murdered almost 3,000 of our innocent civilians?

Why does our government hate America?

Posted by shaolin_Z on Apr-25-2005 14:17:

I can't say that I'm terribly surprised. This is the first time that I think the label "anti-american" actually means something.

Posted by The Crew on Apr-25-2005 16:52:

Our goverment is a bunch of fucking pansies. I mean they reform personal debt laws so people cant keep fucking over the companies they owe money too. Yet the govt can maintain a debt in the trillions and we are supposed to smile? We pay the $$$ we owe by selling treasury bonds to mainly China....does this make ANY sense to you? Eventually either no one will want to buy our bonds or they will gain some sort of control since they control our $$$. I dont think our government reflects the world of today. The only politicians that make it are the ones that are already rich, or if they are not they have suck ass to contributors and basically sell their votes or else they lose their contributions....when are we going to wake up?

Oh and about the post....dont you only get the right to privacy (i.e. civil rights) if you are a US citizen, which Osama is not? Sounds like the govt is only telling us what they want us to hear and are using that reason as a gay ass scape goat....

Our govt needs to be reformed to be for the people again...not the interests of those people running it...

TCrew