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Old April 24th 04, 02:53 PM
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Default Columbia Crew Coffins Mistaken for Caskets of U.S. Military Casualties

Rusty Barton cut-n-pasted in part:



The story began Thursday when the free speech website
thememoryhole.org published what it said were images of the coffins of
U.S. military personnel who had died while on duty in Iraq. The images
had been released to the site because of a Freedom of Information Act
request.


However, eagle-eyed NASA (news - web sites)-watchers as well as NASA
employees recognized the images to be from February 2003, when the
remains of the space shuttle's crew were brought to the Dover Air
Force Base in Dover, Delaware.


Most likely case: a poorly-formed FOIA request followed up by an even
poorer response.

There's an art to those things. The requestor is usually trying to get
something that the government doesn't really wanna release, and the
government is usually trying to make the requestor just go away.

But not to worry. If present trends continue in the US, soon we won't
have to be concerned about that nasty ol' Freedom Of Information Act at all.

Corry

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