[IP] more on Sometimes, even the DoD boggles my mind!

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: "Brock N. Meeks" <bmeeks@cox.net>
Date: January 8, 2007 6:36:09 PM EST
To: dave@farber.net, weisberg1@texoma.net
Subject: Re: [IP] Sometimes, even the DoD boggles my mind!

Eric,

I can't speak to the fallacies of the DoD but I can talk about media
organizations with some expertise.

I don't know how you tried to contact CNN but trying to contact an
organization like that is akin to trying to wash a Mack truck by  
spitting on
it.

At the very least you would need to find a living, breathing (notice I
didn't say intelligent) human being who works directly for the Lou Dobbs
show.  You then email or better yet, CALL that person and make your  
request.
Outside of that, you're chances of having your request filled by a CNN
employee are slim.

Another avenue you might consider, if it's really important to you, is
buying a copy of the program.  You can use this link:

http://orders.voxant.com/store/cart.php?m=product_list&c=3

I've never used this service nor do I have any association of any  
kind with
them, that said, it looks like a pretty straightforward approach to  
getting
what you want.

--Brock



On 1/8/07 5:42 PM, "David Farber" <dave@farber.net> wrote:

> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: Eric Weisberg <weisberg1@texoma.net>
> Date: January 8, 2007 5:13:05 PM EST
> To: Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>, ip@v2.listbox.com
> Subject: Sometimes, even the DoD boggles my mind!
>
> for ip
>
> On September 13, I heard part of Lou Dobbs' interview with Peter
> Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs.  I tried to get a
> copy
> from CNN, to no avail.  Indeed, I got no response!  On October 18,
> 2006, I filed two FOIA requests with the Dept. of
> Defense--
> one for the transcript and a second for "...all documents applying or
> relating to Lou Dobbs' interview of Peter Pace,
> Chairman of the JCS,
> ...including its publication or the terms and conditions of such
> interview."   I finally got a reply on January 8, 2007,
> that "no records
> responsive to either request were found."  Sure.  Now, I know that I
> can't trust the results of any FOIA request.  These
> people are
> above the law!  They are in the "reality making" business, rather
> than "defense" or 'governance."
>
> BTW, Pace adamantly insisted that we must get out of Iraq,
> immediately, or our military and economy will collapse.  He
> said
> that we do not have the money, equipment, nor manpower to stay much
> longer without very dire consequences on all fronts.
> Dobbs showed him a page from some military manual discussing the
> French experience getting
> bogged down in Spain and exhausting its military, emptying its
> treasury, and losing its
> empire. Pace said there were differences with our situation, but that
> we were in danger of the same result.
>
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