COLORADO SPRINGS INDEPENDENT – Groups wait years for USAFA records
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- The Independent has waited 18 months for a response to a Freedom of Information Act records request in the past from the Air Force Academy. But the experience of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation is even more frustrating.
MRFF has waited since 2011 for a response from the Academy to its 2011 records request for all records it has on him, his wife, his daughter-in-law and two sons, and also an MRFF client, David Mullin, who sued the Academy in federal court for discrimination and won a settlement.
- MRFF founder Mikey Weinstein is understandably vexed, if vexed is a strong enough a word to use to describe the frenzied state Weinstein can reach when dealing with the Academy.
- “The Air Force Academy is built on, ‘We will not lie, cheat or steal,'” he says, quoting the Academy’s honor code “I’ve been asking for this for years under federal statute. It is now years later. The Academy is lying about the process, they are cheating by violating the statute and they are stealing, both time and justice. In the 11 years I’ve been fighting them, this is the worst example of lying, stealing and cheating I’ve seen.”
- Not being one to sit and take it, Weinstein has had a law firm fire off a letter to the Air Force Secretary, complaining of the erroneous assertion by the academy that MRFF withdrew its request, a pattern and practice of unreasonable delay, and the inappropriate application of an exemption that allows records to be withheld to balance a person’s right to privacy against the public’s right to know.
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When any government agency tries to hide records there is usually a reason for them to worry about what the person asking for those records might find out. I am left to wonder what information about Mikey, his family, and about Military Religious Freedom Foundation, that the Air Force Academy are afraid to be for him to find out about.
I a sure a great many of us would like to learn more about what the Air Force Academy has been doing that they are trying to hide. No one hides what they are proud to have been doing.