Update: Remember the time that a member of the Department of State wrote that designating Pakistan a state sponsor of terror was a “bunch of crap!!” and how the DOS tried to hide it? Well, just in case you have, I’m reposting.
Of course, there are lots of countries that sponsor terrorism that the US does not designate as state sponsors of terrorism. Doing so to Pakistan would certainly have harmed our “alliance.” At any rate, the Resolution’s indictment of the Pakistani government and Inter-Service Intelligence for –among other things– “provid[ing] refuge and assistance to [the Taliban and] Osama Bin Laden” appears to have been accurate, not “a bunch of crap!!”
Here are more docs demonstrating Pakistan’s unwillingness to cooperate on anti-terrorist operations, and here is the National Security Archive’s Osama bin Laden File.
And I’m still waiting to hear from a graphologist.
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One of the happiest moments a FOIA requester has is when he (or she) wins a FOIA appeal and gets to see what exactly the government was trying to hide.
Here, have a try. It’s fun.
And below is the document we received two years later, after Barbara Elias –the indefatigable director of the National Security Archive’s Afghanistan/Pakistan/Taliban Documentation Project– crafted and won an appeal to the Department of State’s Appeals Review Panel.
Yes, you read that right. The Department of State really withheld the phrase, “What a bunch of crap!!”
