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Former Organizing for America staffer interfered with FOIA requests at Department of Homeland
The Daily Caller ^ | 3/30/11 | Mike Riggs

Posted on 03/31/2011 9:49:50 PM PDT by Nachum

New emails and testimony from Department of Homeland Security FOIA officer Catherine Papoi reveal that a former Obama campaign staffer repeatedly asked Papoi and her team to redact portions of “politically sensitive” documents, as well as portions of documents that were already publicly available.

Papoi, who came under fire at DHS for complaining that “sensitive” FOIA requests were being vetted by political employees, testified on March 3 that Willard “Clint” Carte, a DHS attorney with the title of “confidential assistant,” attempted to block a FOIA request for DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano’s calendar in which Napolitano’s secretary had referred to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as “Senator Clinton.” According to Papoi’s testimony, Carte asked that Clinton’s title be changed on the calendar in order to spare the department “embarrassment.”

“The front office wanted that changed before the response went out the door and we were pushing back saying that once you cast your net and retrieve a record, you can’t alter a record because of mere embarrassment,” Papoi said in her testimony.

According to Papoi, FOIA officers are told they can only “cast their net” one time. “Once you have retrieved the records, they lose…the living nature where they are evolving, and the statute requires that you retrieve the records and then process them,” she testified. “DOJ has also opined that you don’t cast your net twice, you cast once. You retrieve the records and you process them. So [the front office, where Carte worked] also suggested making the changes and then recasting our net, and it was explained that also was unacceptable.”

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KEYWORDS: america; foia; former; organizing; staffer
Full Title: Former Organizing for America staffer interfered with FOIA requests at Department of Homeland Security

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1 posted on 03/31/2011 9:49:56 PM PDT by Nachum
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2 posted on 03/31/2011 10:24:39 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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3 posted on 04/01/2011 6:23:30 AM PDT by ronnyquest (I spent 20 years in the Army fighting the enemies of freedom only to see fascism elected at home.)
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4 posted on 04/01/2011 10:23:48 AM PDT by GlockThe Vote (Who needs Al Queda to worry about when we have Obama?)
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To: Nachum

Papoi claims that she was demoted within DHS for raising concerns about the FOIA process.

5 posted on 04/01/2011 10:32:42 AM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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