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  • Navy Mistakenly Sends Memo to NBC Reporter of Plans to Derail Him

    01/08/2014 12:58:21 PM PST · by markomalley · 19 replies
    Big Journalism ^ | 1/8/2014 | WILLIAM BIGELOW
    The United States Navy, trying to sidetrack an investigation into the September Navy Yard shooting by an NBC reporter, mistakenly sent him a copy of a memo delineating how the Navy would deter his requests for information using the Freedom of Information Act. Scott MacFarlane, a reporter for NBC 4 in Washington, D.C., received a copy of the memo and tweeted a screenshot of part of it showing the name of Robin Patterson, the Navy's FOIA Public Liaison. MacFarlane's information requests were mentioned in the memo. The Navy FOIA office confirmed that MacFarlane had, in fact, made the FOIA requests mentioned in...