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NSA, which is notorious for their reluctancy and slow work on in spite that they have ”so powerful their speed is measured in thousands of trillions of operations per second. ” denounced by propublica.

Again, the NSA showed its slow capacity, math mathematicians and linguists ns to my Freedom of Information Requsts.

FOIA Officer, Blacker told via e-mail that NSA takes 4 months to make FOIA logs after the end of every quarter. The Logs, however contains only simple materials. According to her, logs make only ”data fields for Case Number, Origination Date, Requester’s Name, Subject Requested, and Disposition”

I sought ”　A list by title or description on the FOIA requests submitted to NSA since June, 2013 to the final response to this request. ” However, the NSA Freedom of Information specialist’s response was follows.

”FOIA Logs are routinely generated on a quarterly calendar-year basis. The following FOIA logs exist in other FOIA cases for the calendar year 2013, but have NOT been reviewed for release thus far.

2nd Quarter – 1 April – 30 June 2013

3rd Quarter – 1 July – 30 September

FOIA logs contain data fields for Case Number, Origination Date, Requester’s Name, Subject Requested, and Disposition. FOIA logs do not include the FOIA cases for records that individuals request on themselves.

The 4th Quarter Log has not been generated thus far, but will cover 1 October to 30 December 2013. Once this log is created, it will be placed in the review backlog if you would like for it to be processed for your request.

The 1st Quarter Log for 2014 will not be generated until mid April 2014 as it will cover 1 January -30 March 2014; therefore it cannot be included in your current request. You may submit a request during April 2014 if you wish to obtain the 1st Quarter 2014 FOIA Log. ”

CLARIFY: Please advise if you are willing to narrow this Item of your request to the

2nd and 3rd Quarter FOIA Logs for calendar year 2013.

* Please note that documents must exist at the time your request is received. Therefore, your request to have documents that date to “the final response for this request” is invalid. We will, however, conduct a reasonable search for responsive records for the date range of 1 June 2013 through today’s date. ”

In response, I changed, my request to 2nd and 3rd Quarter FOIA Logs for calendar year 2013 and All the FOIA letters submitted to NSA since 1 October, 2013 to today’s data.

NSA’s FOIA Office is, still in the ”Puzzle Palace ”

Takanori Eto