So then, are all those NSA illgotten snooped files subject to FOIA requests?

A scary thought: if Obama is really opening up all the records to be aired out, what about all those gazillions of bytes of data collected by the NSA during the TIA era?

It might be a real fight, but the whole thing is unConstitutional.

I've been wondering if the NSA serves a purpose other than spying on U.S.. Seems to be way too much overlap between CIA and NSA and we can hardly afford two such expensive agencies in these dire times.

saying that rather than to default to rejection of FOIA requests, they should now have to try to find a reason to reject them.

How can they reject a request when most of the data is probably unreviewed? Would this force them to review the data?

Don't they have to defend a designation of "Top Secret" or "National Security"?

If someone puts an FOIA for, let's say, the wiretapped records of, let's say, a certain phone number/email addy, or institution -- on what grounds would the FOIA be rejected??

I honestly don't know how this works, but the Bush crime family sure has opened a can of worms by having the government collect, AND ARCHIVE, all of that data.

Can't just ignore the issue and say it's all in the past -- they are now public records, aren't they?

That's been SOP for a very, very long time. Then, if they do get caught, it's always "Oops, we made an unintentional error."

The ability to end this fascist fuckfest lies with Congress and the WH.