LNC Chair Angela McArdle Resubmits FOIA Request to CIA in Search of “COINTEL PRO Tactics”

Independent Political Report ^ | October 11, 2024 | Jordan Willow Evans

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Libertarian National Committee Chair Angela McArdle stated on Thursday that she is resubmitting a FOIA request she originally made earlier this year. McArdle had previously requested information from the Central Intelligence Agency regarding details on “any operations or activity in the [Libertarian Party].”

In a recent statement on X, McArdle expressed her belief that the Libertarian Party has been “a victim of COINTEL PRO tactics for many years, if not decades,” and confirmed that she would resubmit her previous request this week on Friday, October 11. She also said she would begin releasing sections of a redacted report, which she claims “spawned the latest round of lawfare we are currently being subjected to.”

Earlier this year, McArdle submitted a FOIA request to the CIA for information on any activities within the Libertarian Party or the Libertarian National Committee. She received a response on July 29 stating that the agency could “neither confirm nor deny the existence or nonexistence of records” related to her request.

The response, known as a “Glomar response”—a reference to a 1970s operation involving the Hughes Glomar Explorer and efforts to prevent journalists from obtaining more information—is commonly used to protect sensitive information, where even acknowledging the existence or nonexistence of records could reveal classified details.

“It’s difficult to tell if the operatives who are smearing and harassing us are genuinely fed-compromised individuals or they are the product of a late stage operation that was designed to draw in malcontents and mentally unstable types. I suspect it’s a mix of both,” McArdle added.

As part of her ongoing suspicions, McArdle further called attention to the Libertarian Party’s relationship with Robert’s Rules of Order, describing it as a “perverse reverence” that has resulted in “gnashing of teeth.” She added that the country and the party’s candidates deserve better, and that “feds deserve to be cast out.”

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“She received a response on July 29 stating that the agency could “neither confirm nor deny the existence or nonexistence of records” related to her request.”

Ok, so they do have records. It stretches imagination to think they and the FBI are not fully in that party.

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McArdle did great in that Broadway play way back...

So I hope she reams the CIA like that evil orphanage tyrant. Elon can be Daddy Warbucks if he has a little spare time.