Breaking International Law

J.M. Porup made this Freedom of Information request to Australian Secret Intelligence Service

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J.M. Porup
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Dear Australian Secret Intelligence Service,

According to a legal memo in the Snowden documents, GCHQ will break international law as long as it's "acceptable among the 5-eyes community."

Source:

https://twitter.com/toholdaquill/status/...
https://theintercept.com/document/2015/0...

How often does ASIS break international law?

Please provide any legal memos, correspondence, or other documents that discuss ASIS breaking international law. Please include statistics per year from 1995 to present day on how often ASIS breaks international law.

Please also include any and all processing notes associated with this FOI request.

Yours faithfully,

J.M. Porup
National Security Reporter
www.JMPorup.com

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J.M. Porup
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Dear Australian Secret Intelligence Service,

Please respond to my FOI request in a timely manner.

Yours faithfully,

J.M. Porup

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J.M. Porup
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Dear Australian Secret Intelligence Service,

Please respond to this FOI request.

Yours faithfully,

J.M. Porup

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James Baldwin left an annotation ()

Hello JM,

As a member of the Right to Know community, I would like to point out that, setting aside any technical issues with your request, ASIO are not subject to the FOI Act and are unlikely to respond to your request.

Section 7 of the FOI Act sets out the exemptions from the FOI Act, and any document that originates with ASIO is exempt from the operation of the Act. Accordingly, your request is unlikely to ever be responded to.

Good luck.

James

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Simon Victory left an annotation ()

The request status should be set to "refused"

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