death threats against US Senator

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death threats against US Senator

Asked by Troy Carter on November 7, 2014.

2 answers from Michael Morisy and Troy Carter.

Troy Carter 11/07/2014

The FBI said I have to explain the public interest in releasing records of death threats against a U.S. Senator. Does anyone have an example of a winning response to something like this? Thanks -Troy

Answer 1 · 2014-11-08T00:18:29.573359-05:00

Michael Morisy 11/08/2014

That’s really weird, since I’ve seen them give out similar documents with no problem:

https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/2009-death-threats-against-federal-lawmakers-387/

Maybe pointing to previous mainstream coverage of these issues would help?

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/37726.html

Do you have a link to the request/response? Is this over fee issues or release more generally?

Answer 2 · 2014-11-20T11:51:40.743306-05:00

Troy Carter 11/20/2014

Thanks–

I’ll try pointing to previous reporting efforts - it’s not about fees or anything.

Here’s the link https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/death-threats-against-sen-jon-tester-13651/