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To: LucyT

Bump for later read. :0)


32 posted on 08/26/2010 7:39:08 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: Red Steel

Lets see if I have this right, there was a 100 year retention period for passport records, they were taking up too much storage space and sometime before 1984 they divided those records into two groups and changed one group to 15 or 20 year retention.

Then they had 40 superclerks go through and sort through millions of records at lightning speed (these are govt employees) and destroy the new class of records between 1984 and 1985 and then they changed the retention period back to 100 years for records that were already destroyed?

Why change it to 100 years and not keep it at 15 or 20? Why microfilm the same type of newer records before destroying them if the records were determined not needed? Why not just microfilm the old records and save space that way instead of destroying them? Would it be cheaper and cost less in the long run to microfilm the old records and store those instead of sorting through them and seperating them?
The State Department charges for searches so apparently its not a losing proposition for them.

Imagine a few hundred Freepers requesting their old passport records..or maybe just records of deceased celebrities or politicians...hmmm, by jove I think I’ve got something there, we know Congressmen & celebrities travel lets take a peek at their records, find out if they have been destroyed! Somebody start a wish list so we don’t duplicate. Instead of paying the $150 just FOIA them...ROFLMAO Lets See FDR, Nixon, JFK....

Wouldn’t geneology groups like the Mormons want to preserve those records and offer to take them off the govt’s hands and store them themselves?

Sounds like Hawaii uh 0 and long form birth certificates well we dont have them anymore but the law says we have to keep them so the truth is we really have them but don’t want anyone to know. Then Hawaii changes requirement for long form for Hawaii Lands without noticing the public as required by law....why all the chicanery?

curioser and curioser..

Is one man worth all this?


33 posted on 08/26/2010 7:55:04 PM PDT by rolling_stone
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