[MedicalConspiracies] Fwd: Justice Department Censors Nazi-Hunting History

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From: National Security Archive <archive@GWU.EDU>
To: NSARCHIVE@HERMES.GWU.EDU
Sent: Sat, Nov 13, 2010 11:20 pm
Subject: Justice Department Censors Nazi-Hunting History

National Security Archive Update, November 13, 2010
  
  Justice Department Censors Nazi-Hunting History
  
  Archive FOIA request and lawsuit opens 45 redacted pages;
  Breakdown of FOI system sparks leak of full 600-page report
  
  Name of office head blanked out from text, also all "personal opinion" 
  expressed;
  Justice Department violates own Attorney General's directive on open government
  
  For more information contact:
  Tom Blanton - 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
  
  http://www.nsarchive.org
  
  Washington, DC, November 13, 2010 - The Department of Justice censored dozens of 
  pages of a candid history of Nazi-hunting (and Nazi-protecting) by the U.S. 
  government to such a self-defeating extent that former officials leaked the 
  entire document to the New York Times this week, instead of fulfilling the 
  Freedom of Information request and lawsuit filed by the National Security 
  Archive and its counsel David Sobel.
  
  "Now that we can compare the redacted document with the complete text of the 
  original report, it is clear that the Justice Department is withholding 
  information without legal justification," said David Sobel. "For an 
  administration - and an Attorney General - supposedly committed to an 
  'unprecedented' level of transparency, this case provides a troubling example of 
  how far the reality is from the rhetoric."
  
  The National Security Archive submitted its FOIA request for the history of the 
  Office of Special Investigations in November 2009, only to be denied by the 
  Justice Department on grounds that the document - although completed in 2006 and 
  never revised since then - was only a draft and was "predecisional" and 
  therefore withholdable under the 5th exemption to the FOIA.
  
  When our appeal met no positive response - despite President Obama's and 
  Attorney General Holder's clear guidance on FOIA - the Archive filed suit in May 
  2010 in federal district court. Only after the lawsuit was filed did the Justice 
  Department begin to "process" the document for release - which meant the 
  wholesale application of the commercial product "White-Out" to sections of the 
  document - deleting even the "personal opinions" of Congresswoman Liz Holtzman 
  as she had expressed them in public as well as to the author of the history.
  
  "Embarrassment suffered by public officials is the price they pay for public 
  power," remarked Tom Blanton, director of the National Security Archive. "It 
  goes with the territory, but here, their coverup is not nearly as bad as the 
  crime, which was to shelter Nazi war criminals in the name of national security. 
  This the public needs to know and has a right to know."
  
  The Archive posted today its original FOIA request, the government's response, 
  our appeal by counsel David Sobel, the legal complaint in the case National 
  Security Archive v. Department of Justice, the interim response from DoJ, the 
  "Vaughn index" of withheld pages and alleged justifications for the withholding, 
  and the 45 pages of partial and highly-redacted response.
  
  Visit the Archive's Web site for more information about today's posting.
  
  http://www.nsarchive.org
  
  Read the article published today by the New York Times.
  
  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/us/14nazis.html
  
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