Breaking: FBI to post Kennedy FBI file on “Hot Topics” website

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Source: Margie Burns

Breaking: FBI to post Kennedy FBI file on “Hot Topics” website
by margieburns on Thu 20 May 2010 11:06 AM EDT | Permanent Link | Cosmos

Breaking: FBI to post dossier on Sen. Edward Kennedy on “Hot Topics” website



J. Edgar Hoover and Teddy Kennedy



This just in--The public will be able to learn more about Bureau surveillance of Americans, including American politicians, next Friday. On May 28, according to information just received, the FBI will post its file on the late Edward Moore Kennedy on its “Hot Topics” website.

In response to a request for the dossier on Sen. Kennedy under FOIA, the FBI wrote in March that “We have located approximately 3,010 pages which are potentially responsive” to the request. The letter adds, “This amount is a portion of the total potentially responsive materials on this subject.”



No surprise that the late J. Edgar Hoover, obsessed with holding information over the heads of politicians, would have begun a file on Teddy Kennedy.



The Bureau indicated in March that the materials would be released in portions, beginning with an interim release about which FOIA requesters would be notified. The usual language about estimated duplication fees followed, including a reminder that a small queue of less than 500 pages has the best chance of getting processed fastest.

Read more: http://www.margieburns.com/blog/_archives/2010/5/20/4533320.html

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