* The GAO Should Address And/Or Overcome The Obscuration Resulting From The FBI’s Overbroad Redaction Of Scientific Matters Under FOIA b6, b7C and b7D “Personal Privacy” Exemptions
Posted by DXer on January 11, 2012
Posted by DXer on January 11, 2012
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oldatlantic said
Witnesses to an alleged murder weapon do not have a right to privacy as to what they saw in relation to that alleged murder weapon. The DOJ said the specific flask in Suite B3 was the murder weapon. That means everything that happened inside Suite B3 relating to use, production, handling, cleaning, processing, application, etc of anthrax is not protected by privacy. That includes room numbers and names of witnesses.
Sugel said
There is a Maryland law that makes it a crime to identify any such lab in the State. So he perhaps felt that he could not have spoken the words Southern Research Institute even if he wanted to absent some sort of special clearance. SRI was doing the work with virulent Ames for the DARPA-funded Center for Biodefense at GMU under a multi-million contract, the largest in history up to that time. Bruce’s main accuser came to head the B3 lab there. She is not giving interviews but is the one to ask about the matter. She was his senior lab tech. She made a lot of virulent Ames that is missing.