Klayman stated: “As this Court must be aware, this is not an ordinary Freedom of Information Act case, it involves obtaining records concerning the deaths of Navy SEAL Team 6 and other special operations forces on a mission with the call sign Extortion 17. “We’re pleading with the judge to do something, and he’s just sitting on it.” “They don’t even produce under their own self-imposed deadline,” Mr. Throughout, he said, Justice lawyers have refused to take his phone calls.
And Justice unilaterally set a new deadline for the release and then ignored it, Mr. The Justice Department said at least 50 documents in the Pentagon have been identified as relevant, but only one has been turned over. Leon in February signed an order requiring the Obama administration to release documents on a continual basis through the spring and summer. Klayman says, he has been “stonewalled” by the Justice Department, the Defense Department, the CIA and the National Security Agency. That is why, they say, a fighter just happened to be stationed in a turret within 150 yards of a landing zone that had never been used before.Ī Defense Department special operations official told a House subcommittee last year that there is no indication the mission was compromised by the Afghans.įamily members are hoping Freedom Watch, a watchdog legal group led by Larry Klayman, can force new disclosures using the power of the FOIA process. They believe SEAL Team 6 had a target on its back and that persons inside the Afghan National Security Forces may have tipped off the Taliban that night in Tangi Valley. But some say the official report, which contained no direct criticism of decision-makers that day, did not delve deeply enough.
The families accept the fact that a single shot brought down the helicopter.
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