Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoTIL the Monkees had an FBI Filefaroutmagazine.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up181arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up178arrow-down1external-linkTIL the Monkees had an FBI Filefaroutmagazine.co.ukFlying Squid@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square5fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareVitaMan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·1 year agoI think it’s safe to say they had a file on anyone who was even moderately famous.
minus-squareintelati@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoAny citizen can probably FOIA a request for their own file
minus-squareyiliu@informis.landlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoSurely if they haven’t started a file yet, they’d start one after that: “what’s this guy hiding?”
minus-squarePons_Aelius@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-21 year agoOpen a file with the info from the FOIA request: Name. DOB. SSN. and nothing else. Send this to person. Thus forfilling the FOIA request. Then start investigating the person…
I think it’s safe to say they had a file on anyone who was even moderately famous.
Any citizen can probably FOIA a request for their own file
Surely if they haven’t started a file yet, they’d start one after that: “what’s this guy hiding?”
Open a file with the info from the FOIA request:
Name. DOB. SSN. and nothing else.
Send this to person.
Thus forfilling the FOIA request.
Then start investigating the person…
Fulfilling?