FOIA Off

[tangaroa]

Good news: You can now send FOIA requests over email.

Bad news: You need a password.

Your request for a copy of fax sent into the FBI on 12/30/2000 is not searchable in our indices. For your information, the FBI Central Records System is not arranged in a manner that allows for the retrieval of information in the form for which you have requested. Items are indexed according to individual investigatory interests.

I gave them the date, a time range, the FBI recipient city, two names used by the sender, the name of the sender's employer, and the name of the subject of the report. That was not enough.

[EDIT Apr 15] correcting my account of how much information I gave them. I did not have the fax number.

Comments

[tangaroa]

This appears to be the case.

[siliconshaman]

Yes.. that sounds like a filing system designed 50+ years ago by a chronically delusional paranoid with no prior experiance of information retrival systems and filing.