"The government will not assert exemptions to protect the privacy interests of any terrorist abductors who are mentioned in documents." --United States Attorney Eric Holder in a letter to Jerry Anderson, the former Associated Press reporter who was held hostage by terrorists in Lebanon for nearly seven years. Anderson had filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act asking the government to release documents pertaining to his captivity. Initially, the Drug Enforcement Administration, FBI and CIA all told him that because of various privacy protections in federal law, he would have to get notarized permission from his former captors to release any files that mention them Anderson said, and the government relented, though it is still refusing to release all of the documents for national security reasons.
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A Tale Of Two Israels
