Want to See Your NSA or FBI File? Here's How..

[eridani]

.https://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/06/11/1215421/-Want-to-See-Your-NSA-or-FBI-File-Here-s-How

Have you ever Tweeted a politically subversive message, attended a protest, or signed an oppositional petition? If so, you may have a dedicated file on you kept by the FBI and/or the NSA.

With a simple Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, any U.S. citizen can obtain one's NSA or FBI file, if such a file exists.

It simply takes a few minutes to fill out the requisite forms and mail them to the appropriate address. An independent site – www.getmyfbifile – will, free of charge, generate the necessary forms for you already filled out.

Of course, you can also do this directly through the NSA or FBI if you are worried about providing personal information to an independent site.

While an appropriate level of cynicism may be warranted concerning the level of transparency one should expect from such a request – should your file be substantial – it is the law that your complet

[hobbit709]

1. My file was most likely started 50 years ago.

Further, deponeth sayeth not.

[Human101948]

2. The CIA just sends you a letter in return...

"We can neither confirm or deny the existence of such files."

They just stonewall you unless you have the money to hire a bunch of high priced lawyers.

[newfie11]

5. What I got from them

Is a letter saying this wasn't covered under the freedom of information act.

[Turbineguy]

3. The birthers might be surprized to learn

that the NSA has a file on Mr. Obama and if he had been born in Kenya, it would have been known before he ascended to the U.S. Senate.

[Human101948]

8. The NSA is part of the radical muslim conspiracy...

to take over 'Murica!

[Travis_0004]

4. You should request a file twice

The second time to see if the file request goes in your file.

Of course then you have to request a 3rd time. . . .

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. what would happen if a million of us all requested to see our file

once a week
for a year?

A spanner in teh works, maybe?

[Vinca]

7. I'm sure they've got a file on me because I applied for a job with the FBI many decades ago.

They offered it to me, but I was unable to accept at the time so I imagine my file isn't too exciting.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

9. I know for a fact there are such files on me.

In late '73 to '75 I worked on an NSA-controlled Air Force base. Perhaps you've heard of Echelon?

The FBI did a background check on me while I was training in Texas- they went to my little village and asked virtually every adult there if I were a commie sympathizer bastard before they would give me my clearance.

And in the years since I've been vocal at times- search the DU2 archives for the best of my old rants. I have no doubt anyone who posted here during the *bush years has a red flag or two attached to their names in one or more official files.

Big deal.

[hobbit709]

10. I missed two weeks of basic because these guys kept trying to get me to sign up for something else

than what I had signed up for. They always wore civilian clothes and twice they took me for lunch at the Officer's Club. My mistake was acing every damn idiot test given.
Didn't take long for me to figure out they were spooks of some sort.