Your FBI at Work: Protecting Osama bin Laden's "Right to Privacy"

It's nice to see such concern for the little guy from a government agency.

Judicial Watch, the public interest group that fights government corruption, announced today that it has obtained documents through the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) in which the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”) has invoked privacy right protections on behalf of al Qaeda terror leader Osama bin Laden. In a September 24, 2003 declassified “Secret” FBI report obtained by Judicial Watch, the FBI invoked Exemption 6 under FOIA law on behalf of bin Laden, which permits the government to withhold all information about U.S. persons in “personnel and medical files and similar files” when the disclosure of such information “would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.” (5 U.S.C. § 552(b)(6) (2000))

I guess if your Daddy owns the President of the United States of America, that entitles you to rights as an American citizen alright.

The actual redacted and hence declassified document from the FBI can be found here.

Thanks to QrazyQat on Digby's comment boards for the heads up.