Jad Abumrad
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6,321 appearances
21 recordings
5 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 11 Sep
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Yeah, that guy.
If all he's asking is, what do you know about who I call?
And the only answer he's expecting to get is like, we know you call your wife.
Why would they glomar that?
Well, they told him in that letter that if they confirm or deny the existence or non-existence of those records... It would help the adversaries of the United States.
I guess that they would learn that they have records of me calling my wife.
So the statutory reason why I've read that your sort of FOIAs are denied with a GLOMAR request is that if you say someone is under surveillance by acknowledging records or you say they're not under surveillance by acknowledging,
acknowledging no records, either way it outlines the contour of the program.
It's a tiny crack through which people can sort of puncture the wall and get information about the larger program.
In any way, I seem like I feel suddenly dangerously exposed.
I don't know.
It's all very, very confusing and you could wrap your brain around it and never get to sleep for the rest of your life if you thought about it really hard.
And by the way, there is a, we should say, a very good argument against that argument from the government.
That's Dina Temple Raston, counterterrorism correspondent for NPR.
As Julia was reporting her story, we ended up calling Dina just to sound her out because she has been glomered on drones.
She's been glomered on terrorism investigations.
And she told us something interesting, that this whole non-denial, denial state of weirdness has created some very unique situations for her as a reporter.
Like, say on any given Monday, she sits down, writes a FOIA request about the drone program, which will get glow-marred.
Then on Tuesday, the government will turn around, organize a meeting for reporters about the drone program.
And actually, that's kind of what happened with the Project Azorian, that Glomar mission from the 70s.
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