I noticed many blank or whited out pages of redacted material in this FOIA release. For example, redacted and likely key information are missing from pages 96 and 101.
What do you think of the recent revelation that the reporter at the Boston Globe seemingly obtained those documents without having some sections redacted? (Specifically the part about Barack Sr. giving barry up for adoption?)
About the redacted sections - These documents were released sometime last year - late summer? - fall? I don’t recal for certain, but did print them from a link to a Scribd posting by the attorney Mario Appruzzo. Not sure if that’s how his name is spelled.
Whatever - The set of docs I have were from the same FOIA release to Kenneth Allen [July 29, 2010], except that there were very few redactions.
I had numbered mine in the order they were posted by Appruzzo - a different order than the posting at the link with this Robin Masters FReeper article - so had to put my set into date order in order to find the pages 96 and 101 you’ve referenced!
For those teo pages, the now-redacted portions read as follows:
PAGE 101: “She also indicated that her son is now in kindergarten and will commence the first grade next September and if it is necessary for her and the child to go to Indonesia she will educate the child at home with the help of school texts from the U.S. as approved by the Board of Education in Honolulu.”
The smaller redacted areas are the signature and then the initials of the writer of the memo: Robert R. Schultz, RRS.
The redaction codes for this page are (b)(6): “Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy”, and (b)(7)(c): “Information compiled for law enforcement purposes that would...Constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy”.
Page 96: “There is nothing in the file to document the status of the spouse’s son. Please inquire into his citizenship and residence status and determine whether or not he is the applicant’s child within the meaning of Section 101(b)(1)(B) of the Act, who may suffer exceptional hardship within the meaning of Section 212(e).”
Following along in date order, there is a blank page in the docs at the birtherreport.com posting linked from this article. The blank page has a notation at the top about the page having been moved someplace else (have to go back and chack for the exact wording).
The doc which fits in there datewise - and seems to be missing from that birtherreport.com content - is very intriguing, to say the least:
“Memorandum to file
A14 128 294
Sept. 14, 1967
Pursuant to inquiry from Central office regarding
the status of the applicants’ spouse’s child by a
former marriage.
The person in question is a united states citizen by
virtue of his birth in Honolulu, Hawaii on Aug.4, 1961.
He is living with the applicants’ spouse in Honolulu,
Hawaii. He xxxxxxxxx is considered the applicants step-
child, within the meaning of Sec. 101(b)(1)(B), of the
act, by virtue of the marriage of the applicant to
childs’ mother on March 15, 1965”
“W. L. Mix”
There’s no “W. L. Mix” signature...
There’s no mention of “the child’s” name...
No mention of the mother’s name...
The only identifier is Lolo Soetoro’s case number, “A14 128 294...
No mention as to how it was determined that the child was a United states citizen...a Certificate of Live Birth? A COLB? A newspaper announcement? Did the mother cross-her-heart-and-hope-to-die, or swear on somebody’s grave?
Big question - why is this set of FOIA docs to Kenneth Allen rife with redactions when as originally released they weren’t? And are ALL the redactions and “moved” pages the pages relating to Barry?