As head of the agency, Dr. Fukino ruled on my UIPA request. Okubo only replied when I emailed to ask for confirmation..
For what it’s worth, Leo Donofrio also told me that he felt, without a doubt, the ruling was a “statutory admission.” I spoke with a lawyer in my area at length about it, as well. He, too, agreed it was a statutory admission that the records exist.
I am just saying. I really have tried to seek out confirmation from the source as well as those who know law. So far, no one, not Fukino or Joesting—no one has corrected me if I am misunderstanding anything and I have invited them on more than one occasion to do so.
I will vouch for what you just said. You have given them every opportunity to say that you misunderstood - even asked them directly. Nobody would say that you misunderstood or change their response. It’s like the Millionaire question they knew was a millionaire question and you asked them about 4 different times, “Is that your final answer?”
At this point they’ve lost all ability to say that you misunderstood or that they didn’t realize what their answer meant.