Blogs Feb 29, 2012 at 11:41 am

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So will it cause a blip if a whole bunch of people in one area (such as Seattle) request their files within a short period of time?
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I've got my letters! I can't wait to either find out they know nothing/don't care and be sort of disappointed, or find out they know way more than I thought and be freaked out.
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I've printed them out, but I still need to fill them out and get stamps and mail them.
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I'm gonna do this. When I was in college I caught a suit in an unmarked sedan taking photos of me. No lie.
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Sure, go ahead, make a request to get your FBI file. Easy for you to say, Brendan. A few years back, at the urging of a real kick-ass friend with whom I did lots of ACT UP and Queer Nation stunts years back, I did submit my FOIA request to the FBI. The FBI sent me the same type of confirmation letter that Brendan got, further explaining that because I had lived in so many cities, I should expect the agency to take several months to review its files and issue its response. Alas, two weeks letter I received that response. There was no FBI file on me. Nada. Zip. Geez Louise, here I thought all my activism was so effective. I mean, what about the outing campaign against Sen. Mark Hatfield? The excoriation of then-Gov. Bill Clinton’s abysmal gay and AIDS records when he was running for President in ’92? The zap of the Portland FDA office? No one in the J. Edgar Hoover Building cared a whit. Talk about bursting my inflated activist ego. Best of luck to you, Brendan, for determining if they do indeed have a Kiley dossier. I guess I won’t be invited to the Slog Happy to compare notes.
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I wonder if they'll start surveillance on me simply for having filed this request.
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Do you get to come to the party even if your file comes back empty? 'Cause I'm sure I'll be playing my usual party role: not a Person of Interest.
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@ 5. I don't think I'll feel too disappointed if they don't have anything—the FBI works in mysterious ways. But I'll be curious to see what (if anything) the aggregate requests turn up.
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Surely, having event permits in my name for a huge marijuana-smoking festival in downtown Seattle, and running a pot initiative campaign, has got to produce a federal file, right?

I'm sending in my letters.
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everyone take turns reading them at slog happy. best one gets a prize.
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In a part of a dream I had there was the FBI taking photos of me.
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@5 I do know someone who has requested his file twice, several years apart. The first time they had nothing on him. The second, there was just one item in his file: the letter he sent them requesting his file the first time.

I've requested mine twice--nothing there either time. I was ever-so-slightly insulted.
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I've got my confirmation letters. The site told me to be sure to submit to both the national office and to the regional offices of any cities that might be of interest, but those cities both sent letters saying they've forwarded the request on to the national. So I guess we'll see.

I expect to see just a single sheet of paper saying "we don't understand how this subject hasn't accidentally killed himself yet".
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Ok - I'll bite. Just printed, filled out, and mailed.
Can't wait to see what it says.
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You're being ambiguous, Fnarf. Do you mean suicide, or do you have exciting hobbies?
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"accidentally" oops, reading failure.
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@15, my main hobbies are "falling down" and "lighting self on fire".
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Will the FBI will start a file on you if one did not already exist simply by making this request?
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I'm listed under "X"...have it stashed in Carlsbad Caverns somewhere. Wouldn't want to see it...

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@18 BINGO
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@17 I used to enjoy lighting other things on fire, but after a couple of decades of steady drinking, I'm beginning to join you in "falling down," so self-immolation can't be far behind.

Don't start kids, that stuff creeps up on you!
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@18 No, you also have to send them an extremely rude email or text.
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In like Flynn
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I think I may have triggered their attention in 2009, when I sent a book I was helping publish: Exoneration (about the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg trial) to Atty. Gen. Holder's office in D.C.

I followed instructions from the AG's office on how to get a book "on his desk" and was told it had to get screened for hazardous material but that if it wasn't hazardous it would get "on his desk". HOWEVER, I got a letter back From The Head of CounterTerrorism at the FBI... It didn't say the book got to Holder's desk, it just "assured" me that all was investigated in the case blah blah blah, which had nothing to do with sending the book to Holder.

I sent a letter back asking what the FBI had to do with my sending a book to AG Holder and to assure me that the book got where it was sent to, but never got another response.

They are still so paranoid about the Rosenbergs that it's likely I've now got a file. I'll send at least one of these to see.
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How do you guys know this site isn't phishing for your information?
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@ 25. Because it doesn't ask you to fill out your information online. It asks you to print the forms, fill them out in pen, and mail them to the FBI.

Do *your* homework, smart guy.
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Got a letter back from the Seattle office, saying they forwarded it on to headquarters, haven't heard back from the three other field offices.

On 2/21 got a letter from the home office acknowledging receipt and stating they were looking. That letter gave me a FOIPA Request Number and provided an online link to check status. As of this morning they were still searching.
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You are all dumb motherfuckers. You can do this electronically.

Fill this out: http://www.fbi.gov/foia/u.s.-department-…

Then print it, sign it and scan it.

Then fill out this sample request letter: http://www.fbi.gov/foia/sample-fbi-foia-…

Then e-mail the letter to foiparequest@ic.fbi.gov with the scanned certification of identity attached.
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Can we do the same in Canada with the RCMP (FBI equivalent)?
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Just sent mine in.
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