#foia
Freedom of Information Act requests, replies, and the procedural exposure of records.
7 entries.
From the storm
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Target with SAAS
A look at the case-file knowledge database I am building. My own targeting situation is one of its cases, and as the structure comes together the thing that becomes clear is the medium. Dated events, persons, organizations, alternative explanatory scenarios: all of it binds together in an organized way only when the relationships between them are clickable. A word-processing document cannot draw that connectivity. HTML can. The point is to let someone like an investigator drive through my experience the way I saw it, not read about it on a page.
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Fried Shitbag
A 53-second hypothetical, posed straight to camera. If the civil-rights violations are ever forced into the open and the government offers a settlement, the answer is no to the money and yes to prosecution: everyone who lifted a finger, named and charged, rather than paid off and forgotten. Defiant, addressed to no one in particular and to everyone who would recognize themselves in it.
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Informant Networks and the Fusion Center
A long evening session deepening the citizen-informant tactic into its institutional architecture — fusion centers, lateral sharing, the narcissist's gravity toward power-adjacent informant roles, the absence of audit on inbound CI reporting, and the IT-sector overlap where privileged system access compounds the conflict. Closes with a seven-FOIA package addressed to the Texas Fusion Center and HPD's Criminal Intelligence Division plus three snarky Saturday-night limericks from the kdb.
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NASA and Such
A long evening continuation of the DIA / DMA Crossover from earlier the same day. NASA / Johnson Space Center surfaces as a third hypothesis — Mont Belvieu sits ~30 miles from JSC; a signed Challenger-crew photograph was a childhood birthday present; the grandmother's social graph plausibly intersected the Wernher von Braun / Operation Paperclip German-aerospace network. The investigation widens into the maternal-grandmother lineage, an OSS-Pacific-theater intelligence marriage, the illegal-adoption storyline, and an old conflict with a powerful religious institution. Closes on a redemptive theological note.
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DIA / DMA Crossover
An evening continuation of the Shit Pile thread, this time considering the possibility that the uniformed personnel who showed me satellite imagery as a child were not DIA at all — they may have been DMA (the Defense Mapping Agency, which actually owned the satellite-imagery infrastructure of the era), looking for something more specific than spatial reasoning. The conversation widens out to natural-form recognition, the suppression of intuitive faculties by family-of-origin dynamics, Indra's net, and closes on a foreign-language note for the morning.
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DIA FOIA Reply
A reply from the Defense Intelligence Agency to the FOIA request filed yesterday — the request must be re-submitted as a Privacy Act request because it concerns the requester. A morning session with Too Bits to handle the PDF form's character-limit truncation and the attachment workflow that gets the full text through anyway.
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FOIA 000 Sent
The first FOIA request — to the DIA, on the Sun Streak window — is filed. The wait begins.
