Posted on 01/08/2014 12:58:21 PM PST by markomalley
The United States Navy, trying to sidetrack an investigation into the September Navy Yard shooting by an NBC reporter, mistakenly sent him a copy of a memo delineating how the Navy would deter his requests for information using the Freedom of Information Act.
Scott MacFarlane, a reporter for NBC 4 in Washington, D.C., received a copy of the memo and tweeted a screenshot of part of it showing the name of Robin Patterson, the Navy's FOIA Public Liaison. MacFarlane's information requests were mentioned in the memo. The Navy FOIA office confirmed that MacFarlane had, in fact, made the FOIA requests mentioned in the memo.
MacFarlane was looking for memos written by several Naval Sea Systems Command officials in the months that followed the shooting, e-mails sent the morning of the shooting, and photos of Building 197, the site of the incident. MacFarlane asked that any fees for the information higher than $15 be waived as the "request is in the public interest." He asserted, "A compelling need exists to warrant expedited processing of this request, because a large number of our viewers are immediately impacted by the content of these records. These records relate directly to performance of government in matters of safety, health and well-being."
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And remember, they want to handle your medicine.
blockhead bureaucrats.
The Navy should’ve reminded the reporter who the commander in chief is instead. He would’ve dropped his investigation immediately & filed a story exploring whether the navy should wait until Obama leaves office before naming an aircraft carrier after him.
ah, but the joys of reply all.
It has embarrassed me.
I was not aware that NBC was arming their reporters. Hopefully, he didn't use a "black assault weapon of mass destruction with a high capacity magazine".
"No, actually the magazines he used were Time & Newsweek which are Zero ("Zero", get it...) capacity dedicated magazines."
/s
/feeble attempt at humor
Hahahahahahaha...
Wait until “Big Helmet” gets ahold of him!
Its gotten me too.
“You have failed me for the last time, Admiral.”
I just mailed an FOIA request to Robin Patterson. I wasn’t sure I had mailed it to the correct person. This article shows that I did. Yeah, Freerepublic! Once more, it came through for me without even trying!
I wonder if they did it accidentally on purpose...
I wonder if they did it accidentally on purpose...
I wonder as well. There are lots of patriotic Americans who work inside the government. This “error” can easily be portrayed as a “fat finger fumble”.
You forgot co kills bullets from saturday night special plastic guns that don’t show up on xray machines and are untraceable.....and they are definitely not “for the children”
That was a bad day.
“blockhead bureaucrats.”
Is there any other kind?
That would be this guy...
NBC doesn’t need reporters or investigators for this or any other event. NBC people just make things up as they go along, anyway. I’m sure they already have script writers generating news and commentary for the next couple of months.
Well unless there are beers involved.
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