NASA Wank Worm investigation - SPAN Worm Incident
| Tracking # |
19-GSFC-F-00505 |
| Submitted | May 3, 2019 |
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From: Emily Crose
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, I hereby request the following records:
Any internal documentation recorded in print, voice, video or otherwise between the years of 1988 and 1999 that contain the search term "SPACE PHYSICS ANALYSIS NETWORK (SPAN) WORM INCIDENT" or "SPACE PHYSICS ANALYSIS NETWORK worm incident" or "SPAN Worm Incident" or "Worm Incident". Please include this and all variations in capitals of the aforementioned terms for the specified span of dates.
The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.
In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.
Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 20 business days, as the statute requires.
Sincerely,
Emily Crose
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on May 3, 2019. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Ms. Crose,
We received the attachment regarding a follow up on your request. Your request has been sent to our Office of Chief Counsel for review. After the review has been completed, we will contact you.
Thank you for your patience during this time.
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Joan Belt
FOIA Officer
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Office of Communications
Code 130
301-286-4721
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From: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Ms. Crose,
Attached is our correspondence letter regarding your request.
[Meatball-2]
Joan Belt
FOIA Officer
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Office of Communications
Code 130
301-286-4721
NOTE: This e-mail message & any attachment(s) are intended only for the confidential use of the recipient(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, please reply to the sender and inform sender of the error and delete the message from your electronic files.
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From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on May 3, 2019. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. You had assigned it reference number #19-GSFC-F-00505.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Ms. Crose,
Attached is our Initial Determination letter regarding your request.
[Meatball-2]
Joan Belt
FOIA Public Liaison Officer
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Office of Communications
Code 130
301-286-4721
NOTE: This e-mail message & any attachment(s) are intended only for the confidential use of the recipient(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, please reply to the sender and inform sender of the error and delete the message from your electronic files.
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From: Emily Crose
Is there any update on this?
From: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Good afternoon,
Your request was process by our office and we sent you our initial determination on July 3, 2019. (See attachment)
If we can be of further assistance, please contact me.
Joan Belt
FOIA Public Liaison Officer
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From: Emily Crose
Joan,
Apologies for the confusion, this FOIA request was the result of a previous FOIA I submitted to NASA and I received additional material that wasn't included in this release. I'm including a copy of the slides that would also be responsive to this FOIA request.
Is the previous initial response really the complete set of existing documentation that would potentially be responsive to my FOIA on this issue? If so, why weren't these slides included in the initial response?
Please advise.
From: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Good Morning Ms. Crose:
The response Ms. Joan Belt provided under FOIA case number 19-GSFC-F-00505 was pursuant to a search conducted at our Goddard center. The attached document was produced in response to a FOIA request you submitted to NASA Headquarters. The attached document was provided in your FOIA case number 19-HQ-F-00416. Our FOIA offices are not centralized in a manner to search every centers' records system when a FOIA request is sent to that center. Each center can produce records that are within their possession. For this reason, Ms. Belt was only able to produce what Goddard had in its possession and HQ produced other records in its possession.
Please feel free to call me so I can better explain how we process records and/or if you have any other questions.
Regards,
Nikki Gramian
Principal Agency FOIA Officer
NASA HQ
(202) 358-0625
From: Emily Crose
Okay, thank you for the information, I appreciate it. Are there any other FOIA offices within NASA that this request may be pertinent to that you could suggest?
From: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
I am not sure. Typically, Headquarters would have the most records. But, it could be that other centers may have been affected and as a result may have records. Now, the requested records are from long time ago and it could very well be that they are destroyed pursuant to NASA's records retention policy/schedule.
Regards,
Nikki Gramian
From: Emily Crose
Would files of this nature not be mandatory to send to the National Archives?
From: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Hmm! I am not sure. I don't believe these types of records have permanent value, but I am not sure about my response. We typically find out when we do a search if records are still in existence or were destroyed due to records retention policy.
From: Emily Crose
Okay, thank you very much for your help!
Best wishes,
Emily Crose
From: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
My pleasure. Please feel free to call or email if you have any other questions.
Best,
Nikki Gramian