FEOS wrote:
That has got to be one of the most ludicrous pieces of trash "journalism" I've read in a while. Someone is bitching because medical records from 1964 weren't released under FOIA...when the law clearly states medical records aren't FOIA-able material.
Damn law-abiding bureaucrats who won't break the law to suit a political agenda/smear job...
That's one of the two the Navy won't release, according to the Huffington Post.
1) The first request for information concerning duty assignment logs to Portsmouth Naval Hospital -- where McCain was allegedly brought after the accident -- came in the form of a Freedom of Information Act request on August 28, 2008. The Navy acknowledged receipt of the request and advised that it had located the relevant information a few weeks later, only to deny the FOIA on grounds that it didn't prove an "imminent threat to the life or physical safety of an individual" or satisfy the criteria of "a breaking news story of general public interest."
2) "The patient admission record logs that you seek are exempt from release," wrote G.E. Lattin, Deputy Assistant Judge Advocate General, "as information in personnel and medical files, as well as similar personal information in other files, that if disclosed to a requestor, other than the actual person in which the information is pertaining to or next of kin, would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy."
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