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A&A: CPRA not denied, but never produced by agency

FAC February 2, 2011

Q: I have been waiting for a PRA request from the Dept. of Boating and Waterways since November 4, 2010. I made an additional request on December 2nd for one piece of paper that was referred to during the last commission meeting by the lead analyst. At this time I said I would drop all my previous requests that have gone unanswered for this one piece of paper. I sent someone over to their office

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Egypt closes down last ISP inspiring US technos to invent alt Internet

FAC January 31, 2011

Egypt today closed down the country’s last working internet service–the ISP that provided technological services to aviation, banking and financial sectors in the country and the American University in Cairo–according to the Wall Street Journal’s Dispatches blog. Egypt’s actions have inspired US technology bloggers to ponder what to do in the event the US government threw the hypothetical (or maybe not so hypothetical) kill switch. PC World has an Internet hotwiring roundup–including links to FidoNet,

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Former CIA officer pleads not guilty to leaking to NYT

FAC January 18, 2011

The former CIA officer accused of leaking classified documents to The New York Times has pleaded not guilty — and his lawyer lashed out at the government for failing to go after a reporter and publisher. -sdl The Associated Press Jan. 14, 2011 By Matthew Barakat Associated Press

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New leaks from Swiss bank that FAC helped Wikileaks fight in 2008

FAC January 17, 2011

A Swiss bank whistleblower has given Wikileaks’ Julian Assange  information on the secret accounts of 2000 prominent individuals just two days before he’s set to go to trial in Switzerland for breaking bank secrecy laws, the BBC reported Monday: Wikileaks given data on Swiss bank accounts Although it was not confirmed what activities might be covered by the data Mr Elmer has passed on, the Wikileaks head noted that previous data from Julius Baer provided

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A&A: Documents once public now denied

FAC January 12, 2011

Q: In the past 3 years we have requested and received public records of the names and addresses of  individual medical technicians licensed by the state. The requested public records have been given to us by three different methods. 1. In electronic format by a typed document created by the State of California 2. In electronic excel format as provided medical technicians association 3. In paper copies as provided by that group. Since July 26

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