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Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 21:08:34 -0700
To: SafanNews@aol.com
From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SLF: response to FOIA request for political prisoner list

Dot,

Thank you for this.  I have taken the liberty
of forwarding your comments here to all clients
of the Supreme Law School.

Many thanks for your valuable insights!

/s/ Paul Mitchell
http://www.supremelaw.com



>From: SafanNews@aol.com
>Date: Sun, 20 Jul 1997 00:00:38 -0400 (EDT)
>To: pmitch@primenet.com
>Subject: Re: SLF: response to FOIA request for political prisoner list
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>Paul
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>Of course, you know we are talking NUMBERS of political prisoners in
>the U.S. for IRS or trumped up drug charges.
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>The FOIA, however, in the agencies that I had to deal with, were so
>ignorant of your rights, that they could actually keep you from having a
>file if you spelled the name wrong.  And of course, specific information 
>is not a reason to deny a request that is made for the purpose of proving
>a case.
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>For instance, the Union has a right to know how many employees have
>been "punished" for any particular offense, say using franked mail for
>personal business.  In fact, I had a case on this subject.  I asked for a
>list of any employees who had been punished for using franked mail - 
>and they denied this request.  I suspect that there had been NONE 
>punished.  This particular employee was brought up on charges for using
>franked mail for sending in an application of employment for a advertised
>vacancy within the Navy system.  When it reached the "personnel" office,
>they immediately returned it to her supervisor.  She said that she had
>seen her supervisor use franked mail a lot of times for such things, and
>didn't think anything about it.  The FOIA request worked - actually, because
>right after I made it, the employee's first step grievance was granted -
>since
>I requested that she be given ONLY a warning instead of any kind of
>discipline.  
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>I know a Federal Prison Camp in Florida where over 40% of the the inmates
>are there for either insurance or IRS fraud.  The other 50-60% are there
>for drug related charges.  It is a minimal security prison (some call it a 
>country club prison).   It is still a prison!!!
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