Government agencies are required to file, store and maintain official correspondence. They aren't supposed to be careless about it, and they aren't supposed to make it disappear.
On December 3, 2010, Undersheriff Andy Zinke wrote to the Chicago FBI office. He requested reports, if any, of information provided to the FBI by Deputy Sheriff Scott Milliman.
How do I know that?
On January 4, 2011, Assistant Special Agent in Charge (Chicago FBI office) wrote to Zinke and said, "We have had the opportunity to carefully review your December 3, 2010, letter regarding reports, if any, of information provided to the FBI by Deputy Sheriff Scott Milliman." Her letter was published on McHenry County Blog, and I have a hard copy of the letter.
A funny thing happened on the way to the Records Department of the McHenry County Sheriff's Department. That December 3, 2010 letter vanished. A FOIA request from me for that letter could not be filled. Finding it hard to believe that the December 3, 2010 letter wasn't in the records of MCSD, I filed a Request for Review with the Public Access Bureau of the Office of the Illinois Attorney General.
They tried hard to get the letter, even enlisting the aid of the McHenry County State's Attorney.
So I tried the FBI. Would you believe they don't have the December 3, 2010 letter? The FBI tells me that it sent me a "No Response" letter on July 20, 2012. Funny how that didn't get delivered to me. On two occasions later in the summer the FBI office told me that it was still processing my FOIA request; then it said it had written me on July 20, 2012.
Anyone else worried about national security?
So, if MCSD doesn't have a copy of Zinke's December 3, 2010 letter and if the FBI doesn't have a copy of it, did it ever really exist? And if it didn't, what is the meaning of Angela Byers' January 4, 2011 reply, in which she references the December 3 letter?
A FOIA request is now at FBI headquarters for a copy of Byers' January 4, 2011 letter. Will they have it? Where is Jimmy the Greek when you need him?
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Maybe it's a silly question or perhaps you're just silly yourself. We've followed this "saga" for how many months (years?) now? You've done everything but accuse Zinke and Nygren of forging a letter from the FBI. You've criticized the type face, the author, the lack of a proper file number (proper in WHOSE eyes? You? You who know so much about law enforcement in general and the FBI, apparently, in particular?) To what purpose? Zinke somehow apparently asked for the status of a case which may or may not have been opened against Nygren. The FBI responded almost two years ago that there was no investigation or that the allegation which had been made was deemed unworthy of investigation. Now the FBI, probably the entire Justice Department are conspiring against your right to know every single detail of this terrible injustice you seem to be focused on.
Are there also black helicopters circling your apartment (also known as conspiracy central) or are they employing CIA mind bending techniques in an effort to halt your efforts?
I know you had a heart attack. I didn't realize that it was that severe. How long was your brain deprived of oxygen?
Help me out here, Steve.
Do you find it curious 1 - that MCSD cannot produce a copy of Zinke's 12/3/10 letter to the FBI, and 2 - the FBI cannot produce a copy of Zinke's 12/3/10 letter that Zinke sent to it.
What are the odds that two law enforcement agencies would both "lose" their copies of the same document?
Maybe it was a hand written note? Or perhaps a text, or email, or voicemail and the return letter writer referred to the wrong type of communication...ummm so what?
Or we can take it at face value. The FBI reply begins with "We have had the opportunity to carefully review your December 3, 2010, letter..."
Having read this wording numerous times now, even the first sentence raises a red flag. Why not "We are in receipt of your December 3, 2010, letter"? Or, "We are writing in response to your December 3, 2010, letter..." Or, "In response to your December 3, 2010, letter..."
Or maybe Agent Byers found the "letter" on a Ouija board or had called the Psychic Hotline. Of course, there was a letter. (Or maybe there wasn't.)
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