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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Even now, the only reason that we know half of what we know about this whole thing is because some historians were really dogged with their FOIA requests.
And they found out about this whole series of internal CIA newsletters.
And in one of those newsletters, there was an article with a title that clued them in that this was about the Glomar mission.
They FOIAed that specific article.
Oh, and that's what ultimately sprung it loose?
Yeah.
When they have a name of an article, then they can FOIA that.
And then it's really hard for them to say, no documents exist because they have the actual title of it.
Yes.
So the CIA released this article, but, I mean, by now, decades have passed.
And that's what people now say about the Glomar response, is that it's just a delaying tactic.
I talked to this one guy, Jamil Jaffer.
He's the deputy legal director of the ACLU, and they get Glomar'd all the time.
He says, you know, I mean, when they get a Glomar, they don't get upset.
They just think, okay, well, we've got another two years in court.
What's happening over those two years?
Well, they're trying to strategize.
So if they really want to know about a program and they really want to get those documents, they will look for any sort of mention of those documents by public officials in the same agency.
So say you have a pen and you love this pen, but you don't want anyone to know about it.
Someone asks you if it exists and you say, hell no.
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