NTIA Cannot Find LightSquared Documents, Tells Magazine to Go Fish
http://www.gpsworld.com/gnss-system/...-go-fish-12126
"The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)
has responded to a request under the Freedom of Information Act, filed
on September 6 by GPS World magazine, saying it cannot or will not
release documents prepared by other government agencies, outlining the
operational and economic impacts of a LightSquared terrestrial signal on
GPS services. GPS World has talked with two independent sources who
confirm that the U.S. Departments of Defense, Homeland Security,
Agriculture, Interior, Transportation, and two other agencies wrote such
letters to the NTIA in the June-July 2011 timeframe, in response to a
federal tasking by the National Coordination Office for Space-Based
Positioning, Navigation, and Timing.
"The NTIA essentially shrugs its massive shoulders and says “I don’t
know what you’re talking about.” Such conduct is consistent with
previous characterizations of the NTIA by a participant in the process,
who stated in late August that the NTIA had not forwarded any of the
letters to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which is
weighing the matter. This source characterized the NTIA as “sitting on
them” as part of a “massive bureaucratic game,” and further asserted
that Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa and other Congressional
representatives are getting “stonewalled” by the FCC in their efforts to
investigate the matter.
"Kathy D. Smith, chief counsel to the NTIA, wrote to GPS World Editor
Alan Cameron on September 29 that, “NTIA conducted a search for the
requested documents and found no responsive documents originating with
NTIA. All responsive documents that were found originated with other
U.S. Government agencies and are being forwarded to those other agencies
[ . . . . ] for a direct response to the request.”
See:
http://www.gpsworld.com/gnss-system/...-go-fish-12126
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