From: cmerritt@intellinet.com (Charlie Merritt)
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 96 11:27:01 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: A pooled e-cash FOIA request
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Jim Ray said in part:
>a well-placed FOIA
>request would be a good thing (tm). I am less interested in the
>identities of low-level Customs, etc. employees than I am in what
>orders were given, and which political appointees gave them.

>As a FOIA request can get a bit expensive, I'd suggest
>that those of us who are interested try to pool our efforts/$ as
>we did with the ZLDF. This method seems to have worked, :) and
>ecash should make it easy...

I'm ready.  I'm willing to put in some bucks.
We need a lawyer, a [virtual] center.
I think the easiest part to get would be a financial accounting
(partial I bet).  I'm sure the DOJ has a (cya) policy of never 
identifing goons of a failed persecution.

It has been suggested to me that individual law suits against the
the low level people that CAN be identified might be an approach.
Sue for violation of constitutional rights.
The depositions would work like a grand jury invrestigation.
"Well, Agent Smith, if you were just following orders
WHO gave them to you?"  Sue your way up the line.
Lotsa Ebucks :-(