Andy Martin says Mark’s Kirk’s “escape from the media” on Monday afternoon raises new questions about Kirk’s election strategy.
Andy Martin continues “Kirk Week” with analysis of Mark Kirk’s latest bizarre behavior
Mark Kirk’s flight from the media on Monday creates a new dynamic in the senate race
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Andy Martin says the Illinois U. S. Senate race is catching up with South Carolina
Why did Mark Kirk run from the media on Monday?
How long does Kirk think he can keep pulling Tom Cruise-style escapes from reporters?
(CHICAGO)(June 22, 2010) Monday morning I finished a column on Mark Kirk and the way his antics are now raising questions in the national media. Afterwards, I headed for lunch and ordered my usual (whole wheat bread, roast beef and Swiss, mayo and mustard, lettuce and tomato). By the time I finished my sandwich Kirk has created another campaign incident.
After speaking to a crowd of 1,000 people, Kirk attempted to flee from the event in downtown Chicago. Kirk was pursued by screaming media calling out his name. Kirk ran through kitchens and back doors, to a waiting SUV that drove off into the traffic.
Weird.
Just about all of Chicago’s media had staked out the MPC event, and all media are reporting on Kirk’s “escape.” The best video is provided by WLS-TV Channel 7:
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/
politics&id=7511629
And, again, national media are following Kirk’s peculiar behavior:
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/
So what does all this mean? Even I’m starting to get stumped.
Kirk can’t evade the media indefinitely. Up to a month ago, the media were Kirk’s base. People like Charles Thomas and Andy Shaw were his attack dogs. The Chicago Tribune’s editorial board was Kirk’s cheerleading squad.
A month later, Kirk’s personal life is in chaos, his campaign is in a shambles. Kirk’s inflated military career has become a liability and embarrassment. Even Kirk’s “teaching” experience turned out to be illusory. He was even dumped on by his former nursery school.
Kirk has made his bad situation much worse. The word “misremembered” is probably going to be in dictionaries before long.
Why did Kirk run on Monday? How long does he think he can keep escaping from reporters? Beats me.
Later in the afternoon, I got a call from the Pentagon in response to my Freedom of Information (FOIA) request for all of Kirk’s military records. In the coming days the Department of Defense is going to do a “document dump” and sink “Commander Kirk.”
On and on it goes. Who is advising Kirk? With 45 years of experience in Illinois politics I have never seen a worse statewide campaign. The worst thing Kirk could have done Monday was to run, and he ran. Now every event he attends is going to become a “run” until Kirk is caught. Kirk might think he can explain himself to a friendly audience such as the morons at the Tribune editorial board, but there is no assurance even those gullible bozos will want to coddle Kirk any longer (full disclosure: I am not welcome in the Tribune editorial board room).
The Tribune and Sun-Times and all of Chicago’s mainstream media have egg on their face. Rick Pearson, the Tribune’s creepy reporter who accosted me outside the Union League Club in January, will have to go back to hanging around. Maybe he and Kirk can look for a new nursery school together.
Kirk lied for years. He lied about every aspect of his life, even when there was no need to lie. The media did nothing to check out the facts even after I broadcast statewide ads exposing Kirk as a military imposter and I posted an actual document from the Pentagon confirming that accusation. What more did they want for a starting lead? Still, the media slept.
And the jokes keep coming. Everyone has been laughing at Alvin Greene, the South Carolina Democrat who won a primary under questionable circumstances. But we have our own Alvin Greene here in Illinois.
LeAlan Jones is a U. S. Senate candidate who says on his web site he abandoned the “pressurized world of high finance” at JP Morgan Chase Bank to become a Chicago high school football coach. What does he think the U. S. Senate is if not a “pressurized world?” Mr. Jones has no political experience but he is ready to enter the “world” he already rejected. Mr. Jones may not be quite as inarticulate as Alvin Greene but when asked Monday about future planning in the Chicago metro area all Jones could talk about was the ghetto today. Of course, goofy voters elected Barack Obama, so Jones’ lack of seasoning and experience may not be a handicap. Hey, it’s Illinois.
Something crazy and silly is happening in our national life. We have men and women dying in Afghanistan. We have a Gulf that is saturated with muck. But Democrats are attacking BP executives for going sailing, while our own President Obama is off golfing and attending baseball games. Why is it all right for Obama and Biden to play golf, but not all right for British executives to relax?
Obama knows nothing about the military, and nothing about crisis management. It turns out there really is “no drama” in “no drama Obama.” In fact, there’s nothing at all inside Obama, no drama no nuttin’. [Sales pitch: read my book, “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask,” that predicted his meltdown.] Obama is the paper maché president. In a crisis, a commander doesn’t take a vacation every weekend, he or she goes down to the Gulf and takes command.
But Obama’s “Commander-in-Chief” credentials aren’t any more authentic than Mark Kirk’s. And so America and Illinois continue to suffer under the yoke of incompetent and fraudulent leadership.
In the midst of all of this negative energy we have Mark Kirk, who gloats he has “clean” military efficiency reports even though he has been admonished for engaging in political activity while in uniform. Who scrubbed Kirk’s personnel files? There is much, much more to come in the Kirk-Navy scandal.
What’s Kirk’s next escape plan? Hide out with Osama? Lay up in Kandahar until election day? Inshallah.
Stay Tuned for the 2010 version of Mark Kirk’s “Pentagon Papers.”
“Kirk Week” continues. And so does the “no drama” drama. Golf, anyone? Or the Gulf?
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Andy Martin is the legendary New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of broadcasting background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He is currently promoting his best-selling book, “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” and his Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Martin has been a leading corruption fighter in Illinois for over forty years. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com
Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of investigative experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).
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Saturday, June 12, 2010
Andy Martin: a Mark Kirk political catastrophe is looming in Illinois
Illinois crime-fighter and anti-corruption political crusader Andy Martin says the Mark Kirk military fiasco is becoming the biggest political disaster in Illinois history. Martin says the Kirk collapse is unfolding in “slow motion” because Chicago media are so heavily invested in Kirk’s earlier lies.
Tea Party “Terminator” Andy Martin says Mark Kirk is about to become the biggest political fiasco in Illinois history
Andy says the Illinois Republican Party’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy about Mark Kirk’s flawed character will end in disaster
Martin says the Chicago Tribune and Sun-Times are playing “leapfrog” with their stories exposing Kirk as a phony
The Decatur Republican Party office that removed its Kirk poster will not be the last
NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
“The Name You Can Trust”
Republican for U. S. Senator
30 E. Huron Street, Suite 4406
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(866) 706-2639
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com
www.IllinoisHighSpeedTrains.com
Andy Martin’s anti-Kirk blogs:
www.DefeatMarkKirk.blogspot.com;
www.ContrarianCommentary.typepad.com/DefeatMarkKirk/
www.MarkKirk.us
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Andy Martin says the political “crash” of Mark Kirk is unfolding in slow motion due to the fact that Chicago media and “Combine” Republicans are so heavily invested in Kirk’s candidacy
(CHICAGO)(June 13, 2010) Mark Kirk is becoming the biggest political catastrophe in Illinois political history. Bigger than the Jack Ryan meltdown in 2004. Bigger than Adlai Stevenson’s collapse in 1986. But, unlike Ryan’s fall from grace, Kirk’s implosion is unfolding in slow motion. Why?
Kirk’s demise is a slow-motion video because the local media are so heavily invested in Kirk. During the February primary, media effectively “locked out” other candidates and covered only Kirk. The local media bias and moral corruption was despicable. WLS' "Don and Roma," for example, invited only Kirk on the air. Constantly. Now Don and Roma look like the jerks they really are. Even Channel 7, which provided a debate for senate candidates, used the debate to attack the one candidate running truthful ads exposing Kirk’s maladies (yours truly).
Republican Party leaders were bribed with $50,000 of Kirk's cash. Sleazy Kirk stooge Pat Brady defended Kirk from the truth.
The truth about Kirk was too toxic for media to report and too devastating for Republicans to believe in February.
Now the truth about Kirk is now becoming lethal to Kirk himself.
On Thursday, the Chicago Sun-Times picked up a story from a blog which contained actual Department of Defense documents exposing Kirk for misusing his military uniform to conduct “partisan activity.” Those documents are the proverbial “smoking gun.” I will be surprised if the documents do not become a devastating ad. They are documents convicting Kirk. DOD documents.
Scooped by the Sun-Times, the Tribune is firing back today with a major story that Kirk’s “deployments,” which he brazenly trumpeted for years, were all imaginary. The Pentagon does not consider weekend warriors “deployed” when they activate briefly for training periods:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/elections/
ct-met-senate-kirk-giannoulias-20100612,0,2203077.story
Of course, none of this “news” is “new.” I disclosed all of it in what I called “Bunker Buster” ads in January. But politicians and reporters thought they could get away with perpetrating the biggest fraud in political history: Mark Kirk as the “great warrior.” They pretended not to hear my ads or see my documents. Instead, their primary election reporting parroted Kirk’s “misremembrances.”
Now the same media are destroying Kirk. Republicans are holding back, but not for long.
A sign of the times: a Decatur Republican headquarters pulled Kirk’s poster:
http://news.mywebpal.com/news_tool_v2.cfm?
show=localnews&pnpID=469&NewsID=981648&CategoryID=569&on=1
Finally, the war in Afghanistan is not going well. I will have more to say about that in later columns. As a candidate, I opposed the expansion in Afghanistan. I knew what was coming. Unlike Kirk, I had actually been in harm's way in Afghanistan. I have the experience Kirk only dreams about.
Republicans, with Kirk at the front of the parade, were enthusiastic cheerleaders for the misadventure in Afghanistan. He has not even begun to pay the price for that bad judgment.
When the public finally wakes up and realizes what a disaster Afghanistan has become, Kirk and Obama will ride into the sunset together.
“Veterans” have just begun to mobilize against Kirk. Kirk’s supporters are slowly slipping away, silently in the night. Their own campaigns are endangered by any visible backing for Kirk. Kirk is a disgrace. Ordinary, rank-and-file Republicans are slowly realizing their colossal error in nominating Kirk.
“Don’t ask, don’t tell” may be the prevailing “Republican Party” wisdom about the Kirkster today. But the Decatur Republican headquarters’ missing sign is a telling indication of what Illinois republicans have in their future. It ain’t pretty.
Why do I claim Kirk is going to be the biggest disaster? Bigger than Ryan, etc? Because Kirk could drag down the Republican Party’s statewide ticket with him, in a year when Republicans nationally are winning. You heard it here, first.
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Andy Martin is a legendary Chicago muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of broadcasting background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He is currently promoting his best-selling book, Obama: The Man Behind The Mask and his Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of www.ContrarianCommentary.com. Martin comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York.
UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com.
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Tea Party “Terminator” Andy Martin says Mark Kirk is about to become the biggest political fiasco in Illinois history
Andy says the Illinois Republican Party’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy about Mark Kirk’s flawed character will end in disaster
Martin says the Chicago Tribune and Sun-Times are playing “leapfrog” with their stories exposing Kirk as a phony
The Decatur Republican Party office that removed its Kirk poster will not be the last
NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
“The Name You Can Trust”
Republican for U. S. Senator
30 E. Huron Street, Suite 4406
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(866) 706-2639
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com
www.IllinoisHighSpeedTrains.com
Andy Martin’s anti-Kirk blogs:
www.DefeatMarkKirk.blogspot.com;
www.ContrarianCommentary.typepad.com/DefeatMarkKirk/
www.MarkKirk.us
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Andy Martin says the political “crash” of Mark Kirk is unfolding in slow motion due to the fact that Chicago media and “Combine” Republicans are so heavily invested in Kirk’s candidacy
(CHICAGO)(June 13, 2010) Mark Kirk is becoming the biggest political catastrophe in Illinois political history. Bigger than the Jack Ryan meltdown in 2004. Bigger than Adlai Stevenson’s collapse in 1986. But, unlike Ryan’s fall from grace, Kirk’s implosion is unfolding in slow motion. Why?
Kirk’s demise is a slow-motion video because the local media are so heavily invested in Kirk. During the February primary, media effectively “locked out” other candidates and covered only Kirk. The local media bias and moral corruption was despicable. WLS' "Don and Roma," for example, invited only Kirk on the air. Constantly. Now Don and Roma look like the jerks they really are. Even Channel 7, which provided a debate for senate candidates, used the debate to attack the one candidate running truthful ads exposing Kirk’s maladies (yours truly).
Republican Party leaders were bribed with $50,000 of Kirk's cash. Sleazy Kirk stooge Pat Brady defended Kirk from the truth.
The truth about Kirk was too toxic for media to report and too devastating for Republicans to believe in February.
Now the truth about Kirk is now becoming lethal to Kirk himself.
On Thursday, the Chicago Sun-Times picked up a story from a blog which contained actual Department of Defense documents exposing Kirk for misusing his military uniform to conduct “partisan activity.” Those documents are the proverbial “smoking gun.” I will be surprised if the documents do not become a devastating ad. They are documents convicting Kirk. DOD documents.
Scooped by the Sun-Times, the Tribune is firing back today with a major story that Kirk’s “deployments,” which he brazenly trumpeted for years, were all imaginary. The Pentagon does not consider weekend warriors “deployed” when they activate briefly for training periods:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/elections/
ct-met-senate-kirk-giannoulias-20100612,0,2203077.story
Of course, none of this “news” is “new.” I disclosed all of it in what I called “Bunker Buster” ads in January. But politicians and reporters thought they could get away with perpetrating the biggest fraud in political history: Mark Kirk as the “great warrior.” They pretended not to hear my ads or see my documents. Instead, their primary election reporting parroted Kirk’s “misremembrances.”
Now the same media are destroying Kirk. Republicans are holding back, but not for long.
A sign of the times: a Decatur Republican headquarters pulled Kirk’s poster:
http://news.mywebpal.com/news_tool_v2.cfm?
show=localnews&pnpID=469&NewsID=981648&CategoryID=569&on=1
Finally, the war in Afghanistan is not going well. I will have more to say about that in later columns. As a candidate, I opposed the expansion in Afghanistan. I knew what was coming. Unlike Kirk, I had actually been in harm's way in Afghanistan. I have the experience Kirk only dreams about.
Republicans, with Kirk at the front of the parade, were enthusiastic cheerleaders for the misadventure in Afghanistan. He has not even begun to pay the price for that bad judgment.
When the public finally wakes up and realizes what a disaster Afghanistan has become, Kirk and Obama will ride into the sunset together.
“Veterans” have just begun to mobilize against Kirk. Kirk’s supporters are slowly slipping away, silently in the night. Their own campaigns are endangered by any visible backing for Kirk. Kirk is a disgrace. Ordinary, rank-and-file Republicans are slowly realizing their colossal error in nominating Kirk.
“Don’t ask, don’t tell” may be the prevailing “Republican Party” wisdom about the Kirkster today. But the Decatur Republican headquarters’ missing sign is a telling indication of what Illinois republicans have in their future. It ain’t pretty.
Why do I claim Kirk is going to be the biggest disaster? Bigger than Ryan, etc? Because Kirk could drag down the Republican Party’s statewide ticket with him, in a year when Republicans nationally are winning. You heard it here, first.
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Andy Martin is a legendary Chicago muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of broadcasting background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He is currently promoting his best-selling book, Obama: The Man Behind The Mask and his Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of www.ContrarianCommentary.com. Martin comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York.
UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com.
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Andy Martin: New York news conference explains “back story” of Chicago Sun-Times article on Mark Kirk
(NEW YORK) (June 10, 2010) New York: Andy Martin explained today at a New York news conference the significance and back story to the latest “explosion” in the Mark Kirk military fraud scandal
The Chicago Sun-Times carries a story Thursday about Department of Defense (“DOD”) accusations on December 9, 2009 that Kirk had unlawfully engaged in “partisan political activities.” That accusation was triggered by materials Andy Martin submitted to DOD on August 1, 2009 as part of his Freedom of Information Act filings at DOD. In other words, Martin's complaints to DOD about Kirk’s unlawful activities triggered an investigation that culminated in the Undersecretary’s accusations against Kirk contained in DOD’s December 9, 2009 letter.
Andy Martin continues to be the driving force behind forcing Mark Kirk out of politics. Andy had not previously released his original August 1, 2009 complaints/FOIA demands to DOD which triggered Kirk’s problems with DOD. These letters are now on the internet. “I said last week there was more to come about Kirk, and it is still coming,” Martin says. “No one believed me in January. Maybe people are believing now.”
The Chicago Sun-Times carries a story Thursday about Department of Defense (“DOD”) accusations on December 9, 2009 that Kirk had unlawfully engaged in “partisan political activities.” That accusation was triggered by materials Andy Martin submitted to DOD on August 1, 2009 as part of his Freedom of Information Act filings at DOD. In other words, Martin's complaints to DOD about Kirk’s unlawful activities triggered an investigation that culminated in the Undersecretary’s accusations against Kirk contained in DOD’s December 9, 2009 letter.
Andy Martin continues to be the driving force behind forcing Mark Kirk out of politics. Andy had not previously released his original August 1, 2009 complaints/FOIA demands to DOD which triggered Kirk’s problems with DOD. These letters are now on the internet. “I said last week there was more to come about Kirk, and it is still coming,” Martin says. “No one believed me in January. Maybe people are believing now.”
Andy Martin renews demand for Mark Kirk’s complete military records 2010
Andy Martin’s 2010 demands for U. S. Navy disclosure of Mark Kirk’s military files
ANDY MARTIN
Republican for U. S. Senator/2010
“He Works for the People of Illinois”
FOIA Compliance Operations:
P. O. Box 1851
New York, NY 10150-1851
Toll-free tel. (866) 706-ANDY
Toll-free fax (866) 707-ANDY
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June 9, 2010
FOIA
CIA
Washington, DC 20505
via fax (703) 482-1739
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION (“FOIA”) REQUEST
CONCERNING CONGRESSMAN MARK KIRK
1. FOIA Request
Mark Kirk has recently been exposed as the greatest military intelligence fibber of all time. See, e.g.:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/#37563940
Kirk also claims he was “detailed to the CIA”:
http://ellenofthetenth.blogspot.com/2010/06/misrememberances-and-exaggerations-week.html
I have no idea whether Kirk was/is telling the truth about his detailing to the CIA. “Detail” to me means assigned in some form or fashion. While any substantive intelligence Kirk may have acted on may be privileged, or subject to a “Vaughn” Index, the fact of Kirk’s activity in conjunction with the CIA is not privileged. There should be a substantial paper trail if Kirk was in fact “detailed.”
In view of Kirk’s other lies and defalcations, I ask the CIA to immediately disclose any documentation for Kirk’s claims that he was “detailed to the CIA.”
In addition, any contacts Kirk or his congressional office may have had with the CIA are also not privileged.
I respectfully request full FOIA compliance and disclosure and a detailed Vaughn Index for any claims of non-disclosure.
2. Time is of the essence
Time is obviously of the essence. I would therefore ask that the agency proceed expeditiously with this matter.
Thank you for your prompt response to this FOIA request. I will do my best to cooperate with you.
Respectfully submitted,
ANDY MARTIN
AM:sp
W/attachment (Cong. Rec.)
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ANDY MARTIN
Republican for U. S. Senator/2010
“He Works for the People of Illinois”
FOIA Compliance Operations:
P. O. Box 1851
New York, NY 10150-1851
Toll-free tel. (866) 706-ANDY
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June 9, 2010
Mr. David Martinez
DOD Office of Freedom of Information
The Pentagon
Washington, DC 20301-1155
via fax (to come)
with copies to:
Office of the Chief of Naval Operations
DNS-36
2000 Navy Pentagon
Washington, DC 20350-2000
via fax (to come?)
U. S. Central Command
CCJ6-DM (FOIA)
7115 South Boundary Boulevard
McDill Air Force Base, FL 33612-5510
via fax (to come?)
Department of the Air Force
HAF/ICIOD (FOIA)
1000 Air Force Pentagon
Washington, DC 20330-1000
via fax (to come?)
Commandant of the Marine Corps (ARSE)
Headquarters USMC
2 Navy Annex
Washington, DC 20380-1775,
via fax (to come?)
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION (“FOIA”) REQUEST
CONCERNING CONGRESSMAN MARK KIRK
Dear Mr. Martinez,
Office of CNO, DNS-36,
Department of the Air Force HAF/ICIOD (FOIA),
Commandant of the Marine Corps (ARSE), and
U. S. Central Command CCJ6-DM (FOIA):
By this letter, I am responding to you as well as resubmitting my original FOIA request last year to the Chief of Naval Operations, USAF, CMC and U. S. Central Command per our earlier correspondence.
Mark Kirk has recently become the biggest liar in American military history. It is time for the Navy Department, DOD and USAF to stop the cover-up and concealment of Kirk’s records and provide ALL of Kirk's service records.
In particular, Kirk has claimed he was “detailed to the CIA” (see attached). I would like you to release all of Kirk’s CIA file that reflects “detailing” from the navy to the CIA, if any, as well as any and all Kirk files that were previously denied disclosure and withheld in 2009.
THE KIRK SCANDAL IS A MAJOR EMBARRASSMENT TO DOD AND IT IS NOT GOING AWAY.
KIRK HAS BEEN MASQUERADING FOR YEARS AND DOD DID NOTHING TO STOP HIS SHENANIGANS
Last year you tried to obstruct my FOIA requests. Recently, Navy people have also “warned” Kirk the media were seeking FOIA access to his records.
Do you have fax numbers or e-mail addresses for the Navy Department, USAF, CMS and CENTCOM? If so, I would appreciate it if you would provide them to me so I may expedite my request to those subdivisions of DOD with a fax or e-mail.
Here are my responses to the specific questions you previously provided:
1. Scope of Search – CIA vs. DOD vs. CNO vs. USAF vs. CMC vs. CENTCOM
While your DOD search may be limited to nine years, the CNO and Marine Corps FOIA searches would have to extend to the time Mr. Kirk has served in the Navy, or approximately 20 years. Unlike the USAF, CENTCOM or DOD, Navy/CMC records clearly go back further to his original date of service.
Your letter did not mention any offices which are run by DOD for congressional liaison. Does your research include a search of these records as well?
2. Cost of FOIA searches (all agencies listed above)
a. Request for FOIA cost waiver
Mr. Kirk is a candidate for United states Senator. He has prominently and repeatedly claimed his military service as a basis for his election. He has repeatedly staged brief periods of “activation” and used these “activations” to promote his political activity.
Last week Kirk was involved in a political fracas (in which I had no role and only learned about from the media, but whose disclosure is clearly encompassed within my FOIA request) for abusing secrecy at the Pentagon, apparently during another “activation.” I believe a public interest FOIA waiver is therefore fully applicable to any search costs at any and all of the above agencies.
b. Agreement to pay costs
Your request that I agree to an amount in advance that I am willing to pay to obtain FOIA access contradicts my understanding of how FOIA works. My understanding, based on decades of my own FOIA litigation and searches, is that you provide a preliminary estimate of the cost of the file search, and I can then elect to proceed. By asking me what I can afford to pay in advance, you are essentially putting the cart before the horse.
We are dealing here with important public records concerning a candidate for the U. S. Senate, who claims to be the "only congressman mobilized in harm's way since World war II." Therefore, the Navy Department, USAF, Marine Corps, CENTCOM and DOD have de facto become a part of Kirk’s campaign by virtue of his actions, not mine.
I do not expect the FOIA costs to be significant, because the records cannot be that voluminous. Moreover, DOD and its sub-agencies are known for keeping good files on congressional liaison, so the information I seek is clearly encompassed in some master or easily retrievable location(s). I don’t expect you to have to search very hard or very long for files on a sitting congressman who has constantly interfaced with DOD and the additional agencies listed above as recently as last week.
Let’s not be disingenuous about this FOIA request.
Please provide preliminary estimates of the cost. This is directed at all of the above agencies.
3. Presidential directive
My understanding is that President Obama has tasked all executive departments, including CNO, USAF, Marine Corps, CENTCOM and DOD with expansive, expeditious and good faith compliance with FOIA. My request is fully compliant with the President’s directive.
4. Time is of the essence
Time is obviously of the essence. I would therefore ask that all of the above agencies proceed expeditiously with this matter.
Thank you for your prompt response to this FOIA request. I will do my best to cooperate with you.
Respectfully submitted,
ANDY MARTIN
AM:sp
W/encl. to CNO, USAF, CMC and CENTCOM
(copy of original FOIA letter)
ANDY MARTIN
Republican for U. S. Senator/2010
“He Works for the People of Illinois”
FOIA Compliance Operations:
P. O. Box 1851
New York, NY 10150-1851
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June 9, 2010
FOIA
CIA
Washington, DC 20505
via fax (703) 482-1739
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION (“FOIA”) REQUEST
CONCERNING CONGRESSMAN MARK KIRK
1. FOIA Request
Mark Kirk has recently been exposed as the greatest military intelligence fibber of all time. See, e.g.:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/#37563940
Kirk also claims he was “detailed to the CIA”:
http://ellenofthetenth.blogspot.com/2010/06/misrememberances-and-exaggerations-week.html
I have no idea whether Kirk was/is telling the truth about his detailing to the CIA. “Detail” to me means assigned in some form or fashion. While any substantive intelligence Kirk may have acted on may be privileged, or subject to a “Vaughn” Index, the fact of Kirk’s activity in conjunction with the CIA is not privileged. There should be a substantial paper trail if Kirk was in fact “detailed.”
In view of Kirk’s other lies and defalcations, I ask the CIA to immediately disclose any documentation for Kirk’s claims that he was “detailed to the CIA.”
In addition, any contacts Kirk or his congressional office may have had with the CIA are also not privileged.
I respectfully request full FOIA compliance and disclosure and a detailed Vaughn Index for any claims of non-disclosure.
2. Time is of the essence
Time is obviously of the essence. I would therefore ask that the agency proceed expeditiously with this matter.
Thank you for your prompt response to this FOIA request. I will do my best to cooperate with you.
Respectfully submitted,
ANDY MARTIN
AM:sp
W/attachment (Cong. Rec.)
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ANDY MARTIN
Republican for U. S. Senator/2010
“He Works for the People of Illinois”
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June 9, 2010
Mr. David Martinez
DOD Office of Freedom of Information
The Pentagon
Washington, DC 20301-1155
via fax (to come)
with copies to:
Office of the Chief of Naval Operations
DNS-36
2000 Navy Pentagon
Washington, DC 20350-2000
via fax (to come?)
U. S. Central Command
CCJ6-DM (FOIA)
7115 South Boundary Boulevard
McDill Air Force Base, FL 33612-5510
via fax (to come?)
Department of the Air Force
HAF/ICIOD (FOIA)
1000 Air Force Pentagon
Washington, DC 20330-1000
via fax (to come?)
Commandant of the Marine Corps (ARSE)
Headquarters USMC
2 Navy Annex
Washington, DC 20380-1775,
via fax (to come?)
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION (“FOIA”) REQUEST
CONCERNING CONGRESSMAN MARK KIRK
Dear Mr. Martinez,
Office of CNO, DNS-36,
Department of the Air Force HAF/ICIOD (FOIA),
Commandant of the Marine Corps (ARSE), and
U. S. Central Command CCJ6-DM (FOIA):
By this letter, I am responding to you as well as resubmitting my original FOIA request last year to the Chief of Naval Operations, USAF, CMC and U. S. Central Command per our earlier correspondence.
Mark Kirk has recently become the biggest liar in American military history. It is time for the Navy Department, DOD and USAF to stop the cover-up and concealment of Kirk’s records and provide ALL of Kirk's service records.
In particular, Kirk has claimed he was “detailed to the CIA” (see attached). I would like you to release all of Kirk’s CIA file that reflects “detailing” from the navy to the CIA, if any, as well as any and all Kirk files that were previously denied disclosure and withheld in 2009.
THE KIRK SCANDAL IS A MAJOR EMBARRASSMENT TO DOD AND IT IS NOT GOING AWAY.
KIRK HAS BEEN MASQUERADING FOR YEARS AND DOD DID NOTHING TO STOP HIS SHENANIGANS
Last year you tried to obstruct my FOIA requests. Recently, Navy people have also “warned” Kirk the media were seeking FOIA access to his records.
Do you have fax numbers or e-mail addresses for the Navy Department, USAF, CMS and CENTCOM? If so, I would appreciate it if you would provide them to me so I may expedite my request to those subdivisions of DOD with a fax or e-mail.
Here are my responses to the specific questions you previously provided:
1. Scope of Search – CIA vs. DOD vs. CNO vs. USAF vs. CMC vs. CENTCOM
While your DOD search may be limited to nine years, the CNO and Marine Corps FOIA searches would have to extend to the time Mr. Kirk has served in the Navy, or approximately 20 years. Unlike the USAF, CENTCOM or DOD, Navy/CMC records clearly go back further to his original date of service.
Your letter did not mention any offices which are run by DOD for congressional liaison. Does your research include a search of these records as well?
2. Cost of FOIA searches (all agencies listed above)
a. Request for FOIA cost waiver
Mr. Kirk is a candidate for United states Senator. He has prominently and repeatedly claimed his military service as a basis for his election. He has repeatedly staged brief periods of “activation” and used these “activations” to promote his political activity.
Last week Kirk was involved in a political fracas (in which I had no role and only learned about from the media, but whose disclosure is clearly encompassed within my FOIA request) for abusing secrecy at the Pentagon, apparently during another “activation.” I believe a public interest FOIA waiver is therefore fully applicable to any search costs at any and all of the above agencies.
b. Agreement to pay costs
Your request that I agree to an amount in advance that I am willing to pay to obtain FOIA access contradicts my understanding of how FOIA works. My understanding, based on decades of my own FOIA litigation and searches, is that you provide a preliminary estimate of the cost of the file search, and I can then elect to proceed. By asking me what I can afford to pay in advance, you are essentially putting the cart before the horse.
We are dealing here with important public records concerning a candidate for the U. S. Senate, who claims to be the "only congressman mobilized in harm's way since World war II." Therefore, the Navy Department, USAF, Marine Corps, CENTCOM and DOD have de facto become a part of Kirk’s campaign by virtue of his actions, not mine.
I do not expect the FOIA costs to be significant, because the records cannot be that voluminous. Moreover, DOD and its sub-agencies are known for keeping good files on congressional liaison, so the information I seek is clearly encompassed in some master or easily retrievable location(s). I don’t expect you to have to search very hard or very long for files on a sitting congressman who has constantly interfaced with DOD and the additional agencies listed above as recently as last week.
Let’s not be disingenuous about this FOIA request.
Please provide preliminary estimates of the cost. This is directed at all of the above agencies.
3. Presidential directive
My understanding is that President Obama has tasked all executive departments, including CNO, USAF, Marine Corps, CENTCOM and DOD with expansive, expeditious and good faith compliance with FOIA. My request is fully compliant with the President’s directive.
4. Time is of the essence
Time is obviously of the essence. I would therefore ask that all of the above agencies proceed expeditiously with this matter.
Thank you for your prompt response to this FOIA request. I will do my best to cooperate with you.
Respectfully submitted,
ANDY MARTIN
AM:sp
W/encl. to CNO, USAF, CMC and CENTCOM
(copy of original FOIA letter)
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