FOIA and NSA . If someone receives information under the FOIA

[peacetalksforall]

are they getting only FBI and Homeland Security information or all government held information? Can they get their NSA profile?

Many people are recorded as suspect as we've come to learn based on airport experiences.

Do we need a new law saying that we have the right to know if we are targeted or labeled as a 'suspect' or 'person to watch' in any of the databases paid for by taxpayers or other organizations?

Only 1/5 of die hard right wing self-blinded followers will never care about spying on citizens as long as Bush is President.

When are the other 4/5 ths going to wake up? Will having access to their own information help them decide whether they will accept being spied on or not?

A handful of people (a small per cent of assuming people) are expecting to dominate us.

Are you all right with that?

Or is it too late - are we data prisoners who are all labeled in our own country? And is the only question left is the degree of mis-use we can anticipate?

[wtmusic]

1. No

In spite of exemption 6 which prohibits the application of the exemption when a person is making a request about their own information, it would be exempted under Exemption1 and/or 7.

(b)(1) EXEMPTION 1 Classified secret matters or national defense or foreign policy.
This exemption protects from disclosure national security information concerning the national defense or foreign policy, provided that it has been properly classified in accordance with the substantive and procedural requirements of an executive order.

(b)(6) EXEMPTION 6 Personal Information Affecting an Individual's Privacy. This exemption permits the government to withhold all information about individuals in "personnel and medical files and similar files" when the disclosure of such information " would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy." This exemption cannot be invoked to withhold from a requester information pertaining to the requester.

(b)(7) EXEMPTION 7 Investigatory Records Compiled for Law Enforcement Purposes. As amended, this exemption protects from disclosure "records or information compiled for law enforcement purposes.

http://www.corporateservices.noaa.gov/~foia/foiaex.html

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. NSA does not respond to FOIA.

I also believe that under Ashcroft, the FBI rules for FOIA changed, leaving most requests unanswered.
As for the CIA, I don't know.

If you want info from a burrocratic arm of govt, you have to specifically request it from that agency. If the request involves lage volumes, they can and will charge you copying costs. If you have requests for several agencies, each one of them requires a separate FOIA.