18 February 2010. Cryptome spoke by telephone with ENS Fair (202-475-5797) this morning who confirmed that he had sent the email and that it was sent to Cryptome on purpose and not mistakenly, that similar emails were sent to other sites. He then said he did not have time to talk about it and offered to call back later. Cryptome said the confirmation was sufficient, thanks very much, that the email had been published on Cryptome.

Add FOIA request to the US Coast Guard.

17 February 2010

Subject: Website Pre-Audit Review
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:38:41 -0500
From: "Fair, Marcus ENS" <Marcus.L.Fair[at]uscg.mil>
To: <cryptome[at]earthlink.net>

Good afternoon,
	
As part of DHS wide pre-audit of public facing internet sites, CG-651
is contacting the owners of CG web sites identified that may contain 
inappropriate material. Some info may be benign, but need the owner 
to review and check to ensure that the info posted is appropriate 
for public viewing.  

The following link contains a document labeled FOUO: 

http://cryptome.quintessenz.at/mirror/cyberstorm.pdf

We request that the website owner review content within two days. If 
potentially inappropriate, then the owner is responsible for removing 
the content immediately from the site.  

Thanks,

UNITED STATES COAST GUARD
ENS Marcus L. Fair
Information Assurance (CG-651)
202-475-5797



Subject: Website Pre-Audit Review
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:55 -0500
To: "Fair, Marcus ENS" <Marcus.L.Fair[at]uscg.mil>
From: jya[at]pipeline.com

Dear ENS Marcus L. Fair,

If you are legitimately and with authorization acting on behalf of 
the Coast Guard and DHS, you are overreaching governmental 
authority to monitor public web sites for "inappropriate material" 
unless you have a court order to do so or that the President has 
issued an executive order for such invasive action. 

If you are doing this in secret or without appropriate authority, 
that is an even greater violation.

While I do not control the website you reference, Cryptome.org,
which I administer, hosts a number of FOUO documents for public 
information, including the Quintessenz document you referenced:

http://cryptome.org/cyberstorm.pdf

FOUO is a bureaucratic designation that is used to deny the public's
right to information about the operation of government. It is in the
public interest to have access to such unclassified documents.

None of these FOUO documents will be removed except by order of a 
court having jurisdiction.

Regards,

John Young
Cryptome.org



See: http://www.uscg.mil/foia/

Subject: question from uscg foia internet site
Date: Thur, 18 Feb 2010 11:03:40 -0500
To: EFOIA[at]uscg.mil
From: jya[at]pipeline.com

Dear Coast Guard FOIA,

I received yesterday an email from a Coast Guard officer,
ENS Marcus L. Fair, stating that the CG was conducting a 
DHS-wide pre-audit of public web sites for inappropriate 
materials. ENS Fair confirmed by telephone this morning 
that he had sent the email (copy below).

I request under provisions of the FOIA all documents relating
to the Coast Guard conducting such "pre-audits" of public
web sites:

Authorizations

Extent and duration

Number and names of web sites audited

Use of material audited

Privacy protection compliance

Compliance with prohibition of domestic intelligence by the military

Participation, oversight and use of the auditing program and its 
products by the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of 
Defence and any other federal, state and municipal agency.

Thank you,

Sincerely,

John Young
Administrator
Cryptome.org

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Subject: Website Pre-Audit Review
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:38:41 -0500
Message-Id: <1986E2EF7533C742A0582833009A29FB09D2C9C2@emo-exmb-m-102.main.ads.uscg.mil>
From: "Fair, Marcus ENS" <Marcus.L.Fair@uscg.mil>
To: <cryptome@earthlink.net>

Good afternoon,
	
As part of DHS wide pre-audit of public facing internet sites, CG-651 
is contacting the owners of CG web sites identified that may contain 
inappropriate material. Some info may be benign, but need the owner to 
review and check to ensure that the info posted is appropriate for public 
viewing.  

The following link contains a document labeled FOUO: 

http://cryptome.quintessenz.at/mirror/cyberstorm.pdf

We request that the website owner review content within two days. If 
potentially inappropriate, then the owner is responsible for removing 
the content immediately from the site.  

Thanks,

UNITED STATES COAST GUARD
ENS Marcus L. Fair
Information Assurance (CG-651)
202-475-5797

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