From: Larry W. Bryant <overtci@cavtel.net>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 22:40:01 -0400
Fwd Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 08:30:36 -0400
Subject: FOIA Request U.S. Army Training & Doctrine Command


To: foia@monroe.army.mil


TO:   Commander
      U. S. Army Training and Doctrine Command
      ATTN:  Freedom of Information Manager (ATZG-BO)
      59 Patch Road
      Fort Monroe, VA  23651-1052

FROM: Larry W. Bryant
      3518 Martha Custis Drive
      Alexandria, VA  22302

DATE: September 11, 2003

At least one TRADOC-managed installation -- the U. S. Army
Carlisle Barracks in Pennsylvania -- recently has taken it upon
itself to impose a bar against its personnel's on-site accessing
of the Internet web site of http://www.militarycorruption.com .

As if that unconstitutional constriction of the free-flow of
vital public information weren't enough, the Carlisle command
has begun a lobbying campaign to have all TRADOC/Army elements
adopt the very same bar-to-access.

This specter of a broadened First Amendment violation of the web
site's freedom of speech/press, and of its audience's right to
receive that speech, prompts me to submit this letter as a
formal, written freedom-of-information request that you send me
a copy of the following records:

(1)  All TRADOC Headquarters-generated and TRADOC-HQ-received
records pertaining to Carlisle Barracks' bar-to-access against
the web site in question; doubtlessly, most of these records
reside in the TRADOC chief of staff's office, the TRADOC public
affairs office, and the TRADOC staff judge advocate's office.

(2)  All records -- including executive
correspondence/directives/analytical reports/policy
statements/public-affairs guidance -- pertaining to your
command's assessment of and endorsement of the proposed
TRADOC/Army-wide adoption of the Carlisle-originated bar-to-
access.

(3)  All documents listing the identity of all other TRADOC-
managed installations/facilities to which the Carlisle-
originated bar-to-access already has been exported and
activated.

(4)  All documents/reports/correspondence/e-mail identifying the
names and locations of any and all other web sites designated by
TRADOC Headquarters/Department of the Army as warranting a
TRADOC/Army-wide-imposed bar-to-access, and the stated rationale
for the bar's imposition in each case.

(5)  All TRADOC-HQ/HQDA standing operating procedures, policy
statements, Internet-management-information protocols, and
legal-affairs guidance on how/when/where/why to blacklist
certain web sites via imposition of a Carlisle-styled bar-to-
access.

Because of the obvious public-interest nature of the requested
records (as regards public understanding/oversight of your
command's policies/practices/activities), and in my capacity as
both a First Amendment scholar and as an independent writer
specializing in government-affairs/information accountability, I
hereby request that you waive all records-search fees incident
to your fulfilling this request.

Please note that I'm snail-mailing to you a signed printout of
this e-formatted letter.



Larry W. Bryant

Copies furnished to:

Mark S. Zaid, Esq. (Washington, D.C.)

Chairman, Subcommittee on Technology and Information Policy --
 U. S. House of Representatives

Director, Public Citizen