PISAP communication (Bureau of Customs and Border Protection )

To Whom It May Concern:

This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act. I hereby request the following records:

1) All communication between your agency and the CIA's Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program (PISAP) which operates under the CIA's Directorate of Intelligence (DI) including communication with any PISAP employee.
2) All Memorandum of Understanding between your agency and PISAP.
3) All records maintained by your agency that details how, when or why you would provide intelligence to PISAP.
4) All emails to or from the director of your agency which contain the term "PISAP"

You may limit the results of each of the above to records created between January 1, 2009 and the date this request is processed.

I also request that, if appropriate, fees be waived as I believe this request is in the public interest. The requested documents will be made available to the general public free of charge as part of the public information service at MuckRock.com, processed by a representative of the news media/press and is made in the process of news gathering and not for commercial usage.

In the event that fees cannot be waived, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.

Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 20 business days, as the statute requires.

Sincerely,

Jason Smathers

FOIA Appeal.

You stated my request was not reasonably described. I appeal.

I believe my request was very specific and the responsive records can be located with the information provided.

For this reason and all others deemed appropriate by the appeals authority, I appeal.

Regards,
Jason Smathers

To Whom It May Concern:

I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information request, copied below, and originally submitted on Jan. 25, 2014. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response, or if further clarification is needed. You had assigned it reference number #CBP-2014-011361.

Thank you for your help.

To Whom It May Concern:

I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information request, copied below, and originally submitted on Jan. 25, 2014. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response, or if further clarification is needed. You had assigned it reference number #CBP-2014-011361.

Thank you for your help.

FOIA Appeal

You stated my request was not reasonably described. I appeal.

I believe my request was very specific and the responsive records can be located with the information provided.

For this reason and all others deemed appropriate by the appeals authority, I appeal.

Please note that the denial did not provide proper appeal details so this appeal was first sent to the initial denial authority on 2/4/14. I am now sending it here after the first appeal and follow up requests went unanswered.

Regards,
Jason Smathers

Hello,

A letter appealing this request has not been acknowledged since it was submitted on Feb., 2014.

Please advise as to the status of this request and when a response should be expected.

Thank you.

Ms. Suzuki -

Per the attached letter, please see the FOIA request submitted below for the text of the request as originally submitted.

Per your response for number 1 and number 4, it seems that there was an encoding issue between the MuckRock fax client and CBP fax machines. The language below should include the unencoded language:

1) All communication between your agency and the CIA's Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program (PISAP) which operates under the CIA's Directorate of Intelligence (DI) including communication with any PISAP employee.
2) All Memorandum of Understanding between your agency and PISAP.
3) All records maintained by your agency that details how, when or why you would provide intelligence to PISAP.
4) All emails to or from the director of your agency which contain the term "PISAP"

Please confirm receipt and advise as to whether this addresses issues in interpreting the request.

Thank you.

To Whom It May Concern:

I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information request, copied below, and originally submitted on Jan. 25, 2014. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response, or if further clarification is needed. You had assigned it reference number #CBP-2014-011361 ; CBP-AP-2014-023615ptl.

Thank you for your help.

To Whom It May Concern:

I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information request, copied below, and originally submitted on Jan. 25, 2014. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response, or if further clarification is needed. You had assigned it reference number #CBP-2014-011361 ; CBP-AP-2014-023615ptl.

Thank you for your help.