Subj: CAUS ANNOUNCEMENTS
Date: 00-04-08 10:48:39 EDT
From: UFOLAWYER1@aol.com

CAUS has decided to go forward with an appeal of Judge McNamee's decision...provided it can raise $10,000 by May 15th. CAUS believes the Judge's statement that "by including extra search terms in the computer index query and by excluding the specific eyewitness accounts, sketches, and time and place restrictions in the electronic mail message, Defendant has broadened the parameters of its search," is a legitimate appealable issue.

CAUS believes Judge McNamee abused his discretion by
1) drawing the conclusion the additional keywords broadened the parameters of the computerized search and
2) concluding that the eyewitness accounts, sketches, times and places, if included in the electronic mail messages, would have limited the DoD's search, since neither conclusion is supported by DoD affidavits. No where in the "record" is there any indication of the search techniques used in the computerized search or the logic in not supplying all the information to DARPA employees.

New FOIA Request

To save time, on Thursday, April 6th, I called the General Counsel's Office for both DARPA and the Joint Staff to inquire about obtaining any of the responses to the e-mail sent to the 200 DARPA employees and the results of the computerized search of the JCS with the keywords. Though neither attorney was available, I left a message and was assured that I would be receiving a call back. Needless to say, I have not received any calls from the DoD. Thus I will now go through the formal procedure of a new FOIA request for these responses, the search techniques used, information about the Defense and Space Operation Division, and of CAUS, DoD's case file on the CAUS request.

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