>> they are improperly redacted or redacted under an improper exemption. we have our compliance and this committee monitoring whether it was complied or not. it may end up being referred to ethics. if there was compliance, we resolve that. >> i don't think as a commission we necessarily expect to handle a lot of non-willful violations

>> they are improperly redacted or redacted under an improper exemption. we have our compliance and this committee monitoring whether it was complied or not. it may end up being referred to ethics. if there was compliance, we resolve that. >> i don't think as a commission we necessarily expect to handle a lot of non-willful violations where the task force is able to enforce the ordinance. >> there are times -- sorry, i saw a picture of myself. [laughter] there are times that the willful violation will come to win the respondent is refusing to comply or disagreeing. they won't turn over the records, disagreeing with what ever it might be, they may disagree that certain things and don't apply, that the exemption should apply, and they refused to turn it over, that is something that might have come before the ethics commission. >> what is the volume we are talking about in terms of the past year or two? if there are non-willful violations the you would have referred to the ethics commission? >> i would say that we have made referrals to other agencies like th

redak redaction, redaction. and any other questions or comments? again, it has been a long and very fruitful discussion, and i look forward to seeing in you washington in about ten days. thank you. it looks like a cia document full of national security secrets, but it isn't. they will release this eventually. remember, what we're looking at here is a meeting from january 20, '09, the height of the financial crisis, when taxpayers were being asked and did inject in excess of $30 trillion with a t into the financial system which is revealed by the federal reserve audit at the gao. and that's just one example of our money going in. we can't get the answers. the binder they sent us has page after page of redactions. we did learn some things, for example. they did break for lunch, for instance. which was good they were well fed. they threw special lunches, which seems pretty popular when someone leaves or retires. and on a more serious note, and this is the significant thing we can talk about, we did learn that almost three dozen folks who were in on th

you showed redaction after redaction. why even bother printing those pages and then covering them in black? >> why do that? are they just exercising in theatre with us? >> yeah, i guess that's what they're doing. and what's so strange is that in january, this coming january, they will release all of the 2007 minutes verbatim on their web site with zero redaction. it's completely arbitrary. in their letter responding to us, they recited a quote of a long-standing policy of releasing them on a five-year schedule. that's not a law, that's not regulation. that's kind of a fancy way of saying, look, buddy, this is how we do things and this is how we're going to continue to do things. >> let's talk about the revolving door, which is the most compelling in my view, and i think yours as well, is that it implies not just the federal reserves and the banks but it implies the entire culture of washington, you're going to the mining company, going to the drug company, whatever it is, it's just one example. this is in the foya release

branch library mural file, and he responded unlawfully late, and also, more importantly, unlawfully redactedm the file. there is some good news with respect to that mural as well, which i'm glad to report, and that is that the current edition, april 12, 2012, has a nice spread on page 8, with respect to -- it is called painting over neighbor heard history, and it has some nice historic pictures -- overhead, please. it has some nice pictures inside of the existing merrill -- mural when it was young and fresh and the existing mural as it unfortunately is now. do not know what is going on with the light, but -- also text. [bell rings] supervisor chiu: and you very much. next speaker. >> good afternoon. the president of united states of america, president of the united states of america, only contact people in compromising with the presidential politicking good afternoon of the standard of regulations and laws in jesus christ, i ain't got beat the devil and god -- but the main thing is -- see, the thing is, the regulations of a good board to help schools out and would help mental illness people,

they can redact the information that is of great concern. so i would imagine that in looking at the standard, there's no doubt that a lot of this information will be made public but in a redacted form. >> mark, explain to people who -- you know, having no legal background i'm surprised by when a lawyer says i haven't asked my client at this point about what happened that night. mark o'mara says he's waiting for whatever evidence the prosecution has for him to look at before he talks to his client about that. explain why that would be. i mean, my instinct would be tell me what happened. why is that not a good idea? >> tell me everything. >> yeah. >> i tell that to clients when they come in. i say look before i start questioning you, before i grind you, i want to see what the prosecution has. it's simple. it's based on the fact that the prosecution has the burden of proof. it's not a civil case where you're fighting over money and each side's got to tell their story. this is a criminal case. the prosecution's got the burden of proof. i want to

the city's official watchdog group not only found that the file was on lawfully redacted, but it also found that the file had been turned over to library users association late and not as prescribed by law. actually, it was 10 times later a man what should have been provided. as far as we are concerned, that represents, unfortunately, -- that gives way to our contention that the so-called community process that supervisor campos set up ostensibly to resolve a dispute over the mural state was, in fact, a secretive process that fundamentally excluded the public. in addition, the attempt to understand how the process worked by reviewing these documents was obstructed by supervisor campos, with massive reductions from the file that he gave us after making us wait for a response 10 times longer than permitted by law. i hope that the supervisor and all of the supervisors will follow the law with respect to sunshine requirements. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> my name is eugene gordon jr.. a scientific fact of nature is energy base. to believe in religion as a supernatural god, the v

the california constitution has the right to privacy as the reason for redacting that

if it's redacted, it's six years. and so air force has an e-foia reading room, and we are holding to the schedule. so no matter how significant a record, if it's released in full, after two years it will come down, and if it's been redacted it would stay up six year, and then it would come down, because these are not the record copies of the documents, and this schedule, the tables and rules, have been approved by nara. so i'm wondering, what the solution would be to this situation? we are demonstrating transparencies, at least for two years or six year, but then according to what is mandated, we take the records out of the electronic reading room. >> want me to take a shot at that one? >> sure. >> well, it is true that not long after the enactment of the 1996 foia amendments that created the whole concept of electronic reading room, and also the concept of frequently requested records on to subsection a2-d of the foia, that the government had could trch f confront for the first time. something in the reading room. th

i want to share redact in the last year, i have had to have conversations with key staff who have painfully separated from the organization of around the fact that they cannot afford to keep their families in the bay area. not only in san francisco, but in the bay area because of the salaries. for me, the ultimate impact is on capacity, on the generation of leadership we need to have in our communities, in our city come to be able to provide the kind of compaio

i want to share redact in the last year, i have had to have conversations with key staff who have painfully separated from the organization of around the fact that they cannot afford to keep their families in the bay area. not only in san francisco, but in the bay area because of the salaries. for me, the ultimate impact is on capacity, on the generation of leadership we need to have in our communities, in our city come to be able to provide the kind of compassionate care that so many people in body. -- embody. i faced those conversations, people have tried every measure along with working with me and my organization to try to problem solve. in the end, they were forced to leave. it is forced migration, as far as i am concerned. what we are losing here it is the true quality of care capacity that needs to be -- we will suffer in the end on many levels. i am here to support the cost of doing business. i want to thank all the people who have provided testimony. supervisor chu: thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am with san francisco and suicide prevention. thank you so much for havi

id report it was redaction free and it first glance became clear why didn't purged from the copy sent to the family the mental health evaluation was written by major robert endlessly m.d. an army psychiatrist who served in with the two fifty four the medical attention that back room when john died the c. id report stated that john committed suicide is the result of anxiety and unresolved sematic pain but according to major n's lee's evaluation his sematic anxiety symptoms were not sufficiently severe based on objective findings to perceptive such an extreme response his psychological stressors were likewise mild especially in contrast to the very promising future that would have begun in earnest in just two months with relatively minimal psycho social factors present a biological basis may be the primary precipitant if toxicology reveals the presence of methyl quinn specialist tours this case should be viewed in light of other suicides suspected to be associated with the drug that document is the first military document i have ever seen that seems to suggest that the army was aware th

instead recommends to the government that key elements of the studies not be published and only redacted papers were acceptable for general distribution. these recommendations were based upon the board's finding that if this avian influenza virus aquires the capacity for human to human spread, and retained its current virlens, the world could face a pandemic of significant proportions. the risk for public harm to be of unusually high magnitude. the board has published its recommendations to the u.s. government along with its rational. importantly, we pointed out that an international discussion was needed amongst multiple societal components to develop policy on this arena of high consequence durc. i would further note in the few months since the recommendations were released there's an a flurry of u.s. and international meetings to discuss the risks and benefits of these experiments. the research issues and policy consequence are now commonly known in being debated. this continuing global conversation is important for the scientific endeavor and for our biosecurity. in late march 2012,

acted immediately upon seeing the first does stressed rockets instead of sitting there all night, if redacted -- react immediately to go to the rescue, that they -- the california could have rescued moist, if not all, of the titanic people. turns out that's not really true. and for various reasons we show that it would have -- if anything, california would have gotten there maybe in time to see the ship. under the best scenario possible. and the other thing is if you look at the lost/saved numbers you will see different numbers. we try to -- update those to what we know now in terms of the actual loss/saves statistics. first of all, i would like to walk you through more or less highlights as we went through the book. starting with the journey across the atlantic and we are showing here in this slide -- in the book, the -- tracks, normal tracks taken by steam ships depending if they are coming out of ireland or coming from the english channel. during that time the we are they take great circle route to a point in the middle -- mid atlantic. once they reached the corner, they split out dependin

if people are going through all of the effort of collecting these documents, redacting them, clearing them for release, by the time they're actually cleared for release it's silly that we're not making them fully available to the public and in too many cases we are not. in terms of tracking the status of requests, congress has said you need to make it easier for folks to figure out where they are in the process. and in many cases there hasn't been a huge leap in the way that that's done. so bringing that fully online and fully automated is something that the foia portal would do. extremely important. and kirsten talked about the websites of agency foia offices. in many cases these websites do now have a mechanism for filing a request online and in some cases for tracking a request online. this is great. it's exactly what agencies should be doing. but we shouldn't have to do it 100 different times. in many cases even within a single department there are dozens of components, each of which has a separate foia office. it's outrageous that a requester should have to deal with so many diff

according to reports who were investigated opposed releasing the report and their names have been redacted. i want to ask you if any of those prosecutors are still in the justice department system? >> i have to check that just to make sure, but i believe all the prosecutors who were involved in that case are still in the department. i believe that's true. i'm not totally sure on that. >> does that trouble you that there would be findings of misconduct in such a sensitive area that they would still be -- that you would not let them go outside of our justice system? >> it depends on the nature of the misconduct, what it is that they did, the mistakes that were made. i think one has to look at the schulke report that is about to be released combined with the opr report and the recommendations for sanctions that are contained in that opr report to look at what exactly should happen to these people. was the incident an isolated one. how serious was it? what is the nature -- >> are you going to do that, mr. attorney general? are you going to make a decision regarding people who have clearly exhi

the 75 pages they sent us are pretty heavily redacted. however, we did discover a revolving door, or are able to draw more light two the revolving door between the federal reserve and the financial sector. fed board members meeting attendees from the financial crisis have since taken the privileged information that they have, although we're still not allowed to have it, to the banks in the federal sector. our partner, ryan grim, at the huffington post, offered this example. >> larry meyer started a firm called macroeconomic advisers, which has won a number of awards for successfully predicting macroeconomic trends. and they sell that -- those predictions, those forecasts, to clients for, you know, a serious amount of money. if those three folks that have been in those meetings take that information they know about the most powerful central banks in the country, in the world, and then go and set up a company that specializes in forecasting what the economy is going to do which is relate to do what the feds are going to do, and they make a

the report cites one officer whose name was redacted as saying while officers pepper sprayed, the chief was in the surrounding crowds. task force investigators also found fault with the officers wielding the pepper spray. specifically the most recognized officer, lieutenant john pike. though they were not able to interview for the report. the task force found no use for the pepper spray. they felt surrounded by a hostile crowd. because officers could be seen easily walking in and out of the crowd, without challenge. >> and i didn't think it would like really -- i didn't think it would affect me. but it did. it carried a stick. it was on my mouth, my clothes, in eye eyes. >> niko was part of the crowd pepper sprayed that day. >> hopefully people will be accountable and own up to what happened. >> reporter: but not everyone agrees with the report or the blame. >> as someone who was there, i saw repeated warnings being given to the students in line. and i think to not comply with that, they kind of got what they deserved. >> school administrators are studying the report and developing a de

. >> the report was heavily redacted.cally said we investigated the incident and our guys behaved appropriately. there was no violation, if you will, of the rules of engagement. once you see the video, the conclusion of the report are diametrically opposed to that. >> in the fog of war in the context of combat this is what is happening. >> after the wikileaks release, many people press the military to reopen its investigation. >> they in the end backed up the army regulation 156 report and said we're not going to reopen this, which again i thought was a very tragic and wrong call. >> the united states military declined a request to comment for this program and instead directed us to the findings in its report. since its release the video has sparked much debate. >> there was a perception that there was a threat, that there were enemy soldiers who had weapons and they were permitted to get clearance from the tactical operations center to fire. >> i think it's slanderous to say that their entire mission is to kill as many i

. >> reporter: you would think it's evil, the way we in the media are redacting the action, and on ade the baby's fish like puckering. it's not everyone's favorite image. >> this is not good. >> reporter: some say childhood obesity makes this the wrong message. >> oreos are sugar and we need to get off of sugar. >> reporter: others cite the ick factor -- >> reporter: the oreo breast feeding ad is pure awesome sauce. kraft said we didn't make it, this visual was created for our agency for a one-time use at an advertising awards program. it was never intended for public distribution. >> does it make you want an oreo? >> it makes me feel a little bit weird about oreoings. >> reporter: does it make you want an oreo? >> that could be. >> reporter: but long before this ad surfaced, there were videos on youtube featuring real babies breast feeding and munching. the only problem is you can't dunk. does this make you want a cookie. >> i want one of these oreo things. >> reporter: not to be confused

s own inspector general-- this is a heavily redacted declassified copy-- k.s.m.enied sleep for 180 hours in a row, or about seven and a half days. and still, he didn't break. >> rodriguez: he was the toughest detainee that we had. no doubt. >> stahl: so, he was subjected to water-boarding, specifically, 183 pourings of water in about half a dozen separate sessions. rodriguez said the average pour lasted ten seconds. >> rodriguez: can i say something about khalid sheikh mohammed? he's the one that was responsible for the death of danny pearl, the wall street reporter. he slit his throat in front of a camera. i don't know what type of man it takes to cut the throat of someone in front of you like that, but i can tell you that this is an individual who probably didn't give a rat's ass about having water poured on his face. >> stahl: he never believed for one second you were going to kill him. >> rodriguez: no. and let me just tell you-- khalid sheikh mohammed would use his fingers to count the number of seconds, because he knew that, in all likelihood, we would stop

we understand many have been redacted to the point where issa has referred to them as the black pagesopposed to white pages so they can say they're complying but they're not by any stretch the -- of the imagination. and there's been 22 areas of inquires asking for information from the just it department. they have only received it from only half of those areas. a tremendous amount of information they are not providing and it's important to do it, for the family of brian terry to get to the bottom of this and get answers. in comparison, the oversight committee received more documents from atf whistle-blowers than from our own justice department. we need to get to the bottom of this, get truth. the best way we can get the answers is to get the most information we possibly can and not more stonewalling from the justice department. >> michael, other investigations issa has underway? the gsa, secret service, postal service, tsa, army pay roll, food stamp fraud. a lot going on right now. >> look, when he came in, when president obama came in, for starters, you have to figure, he had that li