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The two most common laws used to get public information from the United States Federal Government are the:
Freedom of Information Act
Privacy Act of 1974
This
web site
produced by the UCLA describes how to request public information and private information from the U.S. Federal Government using both the Freedom of Information Act and the Privacy Act of 194.
http://archive.aclu.org/library/foia.html
This FBI web site has lots of interesting Freedom of Information requests on it:
http://foia.fbi.gov/room.htm
The government snoops at the FBI have spied on the
lives of thousands of famous persons such as
the Beatles , Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King Jr., George Orwell, John Wayne.
The FBI gets thousands of FOIA requests by people who want
to see the FBI's files on these people and to speed up
things has posted all the information on the web at the above site.
These web sites seem to contain the actual text of the Freedom of Information Act:
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