Initial Request

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005363307
• Release Decision: IPPUB U
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: June 23, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 17, 2010
• Case Number: F-2010-00781
• Publication Date: February 9, 2009

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Delores M. Nelson
Central Intelligence Agency
Information and Privacy Coordinator
Washington, DC 20505
APPROVED FOR RELEASED
DATE: 12-May-2010
This is a request on behalf of the James Madison Project ("JMP") under the Freedom of
Information Act, 5 U.S.C. ? 552, et seg., for copies of all Central Intelligence Agency ("CIA")
records, including cross-references, from the time period 111194 -12131/99, pertaining to:
a) Testimony by CIA officials delivered verbally or submitted in writing to
Congressional Committees or Subcommittees with oversight over national
security activities (hereinafter "national security oversight committees"),
including but not limited to the House Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence ("HPSCI"), the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
("SSCI"), and the former CIA Oversight Subcommittees of the Senate and
House Armed Services and Appropriations Committees;
Transcripts of hearings and meetings of any national security oversight
committees, including but not limited to the HPSCI or SSCI; and
Correspondence and e-mails between DIA and i) any national security
oversight committee or ill any Member of Congress, Senator, or
Congressional staffer acting in an official capacity- as representative of any
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 national security oversight commie. For purposes of this subparagraph
you may limit your searches to the Offices of the Director, Deputy Director,
Congressional Affairs, General Counsel, Inspector General, and their
predecessors.
When processing this request, please note that the D.C. Circuit has previously held that
agencies have a duty to construe the subject material of FOIA requests liberally to ensure
responsive records are not overlooked, See Nation Magazine, Washington Burean v. TT S.
Customs Service, 71 F. 3d 885, 890 (D.C. Cir. 1995). Accordingly, you are hereby instructed that
the terra "record" includes, but is nor limited to: 1) all email communications to or from any
individual within your agency; 2) memoranda; 3) inter-agency, communications; 4) sound
recordings: 5) tape recordings; 6) video or film recordings; 7) photographs; 8) notes; 9)
notebooks; 10) indices; 1 I) jottings; 12) message slips; 13) letters or correspondence; 14)
telexes; 15) telegrams; 16) facsimile transmissions; 17) statements; 18) policies; 19) manuals or
binders; 20) books; 21) handbooks; 22) business records; 23) personnel records; 24) ledgers; 25)
notices: 26) warnings; 27) affidavits; 28) declarations under penalty of perjury; 29) unworn
statements; 30) reports; 31) diaries; or 32) calendars, regardless of whether they are handwritten,
printed, typed, mechanically or electronically recorded or reproduced on any medium capable of
conveying an image, such as paper, CDs, DVDs, or diskettes. Furthermore, in line with the
guidance issued by the DOJ on 9 September 2008 to all federal agencies with records subject to
FOIA, agency records that are currently in the possession of a U. U.S. Government contractor for
purposes of records management remain subject to FOIA. Please ensure that your search
complies with this clarification on the effect of Section 9 of the OPEN Government Act of 2007
of the definition of a "record" for purposes of FOIA. Please also consider this letter an
affirmative rejection of any limitation of your search to CIA-originated records.
If you deny all or part of this request, please cite the specific exemptions you believe
justify your refiusal to release the information or pennit the review and notify us of your appeal
procedures available under the law. In excising material, please "black out" rather than "white
out" or "cut out." In addition, we draw your attention to President Obama's 21 January 2009
Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departmentts and Agencies, directing federal agencies
to adopt a presumption in favor of disclosure and stating that government information should not
be kept confidential "merely because public officials might be embarrassed by disclosure,
because errors and failures might be revealed, or because of speculative or abstract fears."
We are hereby requesting a waiver of all fees in accordance with our status as a
representative of the news media. JMP is a non-profit organization under the laws of the District
of Columbia, has the ability to disseminate information on a wide scale, and intends to use
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 information obtained through FOIA in original works. Stories concerning our activities have
received prominent mention in many publications including, but not limited to, the Washington
Post, Washington Times, St. Petersburg Tribune, San Diego Union Tribune, European Stars &
Stripes, Christian Science Monitor, US. News and World Report, Mother Jones, and Salon
Magazine. Our website, where much of the information received through our FOIA requests is or
will be posted for all to review, can be accessed at http:/wv