Some of you asked me to post what the reporter Christopher Smith wrote to me. Here it is:

4-3-03, Ms. Schwarz- I am an investigative reporter from Washington D.C. who has studied your legal cases on how the federal government has responded to your requests for information on Mark Rathbun. I have traveled to Salt Lake City in the hopes of talking with you, since your cases have resulted in an unusual ruling on how and when public information may be released, which might have broad implications for the free press. I have tried to reach you via e-mail but received no response, and have no phone number for you, could you please contact me? I am at the Marriott City Center Hotel through Friday, 801-961-8700, room 1216. Thank you, Christopher Smith."

He attached his business card with address Salt Lake Tribune, 1255 National Press Building, 529 14th str. NW, Washington D.C. 20045, and e-mail address csmith@sltrib.com.

This is the first e-mail that I received from him, on April 3, 2003:

Ms. Schwarz -- In the hopes you receive this e-mail, I just wanted to confirm receiving your voice mail message and the note in my hotel Thurday, April 3. Thank you for agreeing to meet with me, I am sorry for the cloak-and dagger messages, but I knew of no other way to reach you. If you can't get up the elevator in the hotel to the 12th floor (it requires a pass card sometimes) please just call me on the houses phone in room 1216 and I will be glad to come down to the lobby. Perhaps we can talk in the restaurant or Starbucks, I am glad to buy you a cup of coffee for your time and consideration. Here is a copy of my original e-mail to you, sent January 27, 2003, that may help explain why I am seeling to speak with you: Mrs. Schwarz -- I am a Washington, DC-based reporter for the Salt Lake Tribune newspaper and have followed your legal efforts to get the government to release information to you regarding Mark C. Rathbun and the related issues of the submarine base in the Great Salt Lake in both thge DC circuit and the Utah federal courts (I worked in Salt Lake for the Tribune for the past 10 years before coming here to Washington in September). I would like to do a story on your efforts and how the government has responded, both in the courts and in rejecting your FOIA requests because of an apparently brand new requirement that FOIA requesters must pay back due bills to the federal government (nothing your alleged $ 303,30 bill to the VA) before the government responds to a request for public information. I recently encountered this Department of Justice decision regarding your requests when I was researching another Utah case here in Washington. As a member of the press, this is an unusual requirement that in my experience I have never encountered before. The precedent set with your requests in requiring payment of fees not related to the search and retreival of federal records has unusual ramifications for the press and the public. Is there a time or a phone number where I could reach you to discuss some background of your fight with the federal government for access to thse documents? I am sorry but I don't have your phone number, although I know you list an address of Salt Lake City on your court filings. Perhaps publicity to your cause will help in prying lose the records you have been seeking for so long. Please contact me via e-mail or phone at your convenience. Thank you, Chris Smith --

Here is my comment: What despicable lies just to get an inverview and photos of me! That was not at all what he wrote about, as everybody can read in the below trashy Tribune article about me.

After the meeting, on April 5, 2003, I received following e-mail from him:

Barbara-- Thanks for taking so much time today to talk with me, it was nice to finally neeting you and getting to know and understand your efforts. I will keep you posted on the progress of this story and will also track down the newsgroup background that you mentioned. Until then, best of luck on your efforts and my sincere appreciation for sharing the "human side" if this struggle with me.

Regards, Chris --

I sure found out later what that guy means with "sincere appreciation". Those reporters lie just like attorneys. They don't even understand remotely what ethics and honesty is.

If you think that this is all there was to our correspondence, no, no, just read more, upclose and personal!

Watch for the installment two in this series.

Barbara Schwarz

<p><hr><p> From: BarbaraSchwarz2222@hotmail.com (BarbaraSchwarz)
Subject: Part 2: More lies and sins of reporter Christopher Smith of the Salt Lake Tribune!
Date: 14 May 2003 17:31:41 -0700
Message-ID: <a6bc00a0.0305141631.410bb68c@posting.google.com>

Here some more of how reporter Chris Smith lied to me to get an interview and photos: On April 15, 2003, he e-mailed me following: Thanks for your note. Since I have returned from Utah to Washington, I have been busy because Congress was in a big rush last week to get something legitimate done before they head home for these two weeks over Easter. That way they can face the voters and tell them they did something, but it makes it a headache for those of us who have to cover them. They piddle around for months and then pass a ton of bills in one or two marathon sessions, that makes us a week or so to understand what they really did approve. By them it is too late.

One of your interested FOIA officers - not the one who said you were a "terrorist", and he meant that with sarcasm - did indeed call me late last week to see if I had managed to find you in the flesh. He said he wanted to alert his colleagues that I had the "first visual" of the legendary Barbara Schwarz, and wanted to know what our conversation was like. I told him, first he needs to wait until the story runs in the paper to answer those questions and secondly, he may be disappointed to discover you're not from outer space! I am hoping to get an interview this week or next with the government employees in the Office of Information and Privacy here in the Justice Department who came up with the unusual policy on your requests. The trouble is, when Congress leaves town, all the government workers also tend to take their vacations or leaves. It's sort of like when the boss is on vacation, all the employees come late, take long lunches and go home early. Washington federal workers will find any excuse not to come to work - snow in the forecast, the terror level alert is rising, or the pollen count or ozone polluation is too high. So I'm not sure if the OIP folks will be able to do an inteview with me this week, but as soon as they do sit down and talk to me about why they treated your requests differently than others, I will relay that to you.

I haven't yet had a chance to visit the newsgroup postings on your personal history, and will try to take a look at them soon, but yes, you're right, I don't think necessaruly think that's part of this story. I'm mainly interested in your long legal battle and the interesting precedent that may be set with the way your FOIA requests are being handled. And from what I have seen of other newsgroups, there are definitely people whose only purpose in life is to write nasty attacks and post them to these lists.

As far as conspiracy theories and theorists, many of my stories over the years at the Tribune - and you've come across several of them - deal with things that some people may say are conspiracies and things others may say are threats to our constitutional protections. I did a story that run on the front page on Sunday's Tribune about some of the new governmental surveillance programs - Total Information Awareness, Project Carnivore, etc. and how Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch is pushing these programs. They may sound like the ramblings of a paranoid, but these programs exist since my story ran, I've gotten probably 20 e-mails from around the country of regular people who are worried about what implications these new laws will have on personal privacy and liberty. Interesting times we live in.

I'll keep you posted on the progress of this story. In the meantime, good look navigating around your crowded apartment. It sounds like my office.

Best regards, Chris

What do you say about the lazy, work-shy federal governmental employees, director of OIP, Daniel Metcalfe, and co-director Richard L. Huff? Did Chris Smith suck that out of his fingers too, or is there some grains truth to it? He should have better run a story on governmental officials which don't want to work but want to be paid, than trashing me. You heard it, federal employees don't like to work, but they sure have time to conspire against the good citizens, as Mark Rathbun (de Rothschild) and I.

And you also read above, that Chris Smith wrote that the story will be not about me and my life, rather about how the government denies rights. What a liar!

I decided to e-mail Chris Smith four parts that pertain to my personal life, on April 18, 2003, so that he doesn't have to dig through the ARS dirt and that he saves some time. However, I still was thinking that he would just use the information as background, not that he would take it out of context and twist it and threw those manipulated parts in his article, which he did. He wrote to me that he doesn't like the attacks in the newsgroups, but he referred the Salt Lake Tribune to ARS. Too bad, because they might read now also how he scemed and lied to me.

This is what he replied to me on April 18, 2003. Barbara-- Got all four of these, am printing out to read on the train ride home. What I've scanned would have the makings of quite a suspense novel. I have to read more, but it reminds me of a book I read about 10 years ago called "Charm School" about a secret Soviet base where kidnapped Americans were forced to teach Soviet agents how to "assimilate" into suburban America where they would be sleeper spies until needed. I am looking forward to reading it.

Washington's bureaucrats have all basically taken this week off so I have not gotten much work done on any of my project stories, since no one is around to return phone calls. As I said, when Congress leaves, everyone in the federal government takes a little vacation too, regardless of wheater they are on the clock or not. Sounds like it's similar in Salt Lake state government offices too, since I have had a hard time reaching people back there in the government also. I didn't think Good Friday and Easter was much of a holiday in Mormon-dominated Utah, but maybe I've been wrong.

Have a good weekend and I'll let you know how things progress next week. And I still think you ought to write a book...

Chris

My comments: I did not write him, that I was forced to teach Soviet agents how to assimilate into suburban America where they would be sleeper spies until needed. He is a terrible twister of the truth and liar, but I think there is something true to the lazyness of the governmental employees. They sure waste our tax payers money by not comming to work, don't they? This is something the reporters should write constantly about, because other people have to show up to work, they work for that the governmental employees can take off and don't has to come to work, because the sky is to grey to get out of bed.

And it is same in Utah state government. What do you say to that, Salt Lake Tribune readers?

It's not over yet, there is much more to come, from Chris Smith, who sold me out, and thinks I have no way to document his rotten lies. Watch out for the next installment in this series. Yes, more governmental insider information!

Barbara Schwarz

<p><hr><p> From: BarbaraSchwarz2222@hotmail.com (BarbaraSchwarz)
Subject: Part 3: More lies and sins of reporter Christopher Smith of the Salt Lake Tribune !
Date: 14 May 2003 18:20:19 -0700
Message-ID: <a6bc00a0.0305141720.112c3a3@posting.google.com>

Below you will read that if Chris Smith twists the truth and slanders a person, it's alright, but he feels smeared if somebody else does it, as some other reporters of the same newpaper, that were recently found having made matters up and sold the lies for $20.000. Chris Smith is smeared by his own unethical and flawed reports.

Apparently, the ethics handling within the Tribune was not extended to Washington to catch Chris Smith. His editors here in Salt Lake also came away. That reminds me to the socalled "ethics handlings" within the Scientology orgs. Most of the criminal infiltrators came away, or the "ethics handlings" were done by them.

This is the e-mail he sent to me on May 1, 2003: Yes, it is very painful to watch all the problems unfold back here - it was in the Washington Post today. I am disappointed and ashamed for what those guys did and it in no one reflects on other people at the paper. But we all have been smeared by the action.

On other fronts, I managed to speak this week to a top Justice Department official who wouldn't talk to me on the record but was involved in the decision to notify other agencies about your FOIA requests and the unpaid bills that are being used to reject your requests. He said you are being treated no differently than any other requester, although he acknowleded that it was rare for them to notify all other agencies about an individual requester. He was very interested in how I found out about you and how I met you, and he said he and many others within the FOIA ranks have been alsways been curious about you. I'm hoping to interview some FOIA experts this week to get the other perspectives to your case on trying to get the government to disclose public information, My editor asked me if I would ask you to see if a photographer could take a photo of you, maybe with some of the stacks of rejection letters ir files of responses you have to show how doggedly you have pursued this search. Let me know if you are comfortable with that,since I know you value your privacy, but it would help to put a human face on the struggle with a faceless bureaucracy. It was funny, but I asked the Justice guy if he knew of anyone in the entire government who had tried to resolve this outside of appeals, courts, etc., and he said it has been resolved by no longer processing any of your requests. So there you go. Chris

My comment: Didn't he put an act on, playing my good friend, while all he had in his mind was to get an interview, and my photo, and than to trash me, to slam dunk me, instead of the "Justice guy"? Is that you, OIP Director Daniel Metcalfe?

You read the Salt Lake Tribune article about me. Chris Smith did not mention that the government did nothing to assist me, nothing to resolve anything. And why should they, if corruption and conspiracy does the trick, flanked by reporters who lie and twist, to help them conceal the facts?

And it is still not all. On May 7, 2003, I received following e-mail from from reporter Christopher Smith: Hi Barbara, thanks for understanding all the distractions that have been going on the past week in the newspaper business. The photo editor Lori Post, said they would be happy to take a picture with you at your convenience at your apartment, just give them a time one day this week that is convienience for you and I will have them meet you outside of your apartment building. Once I find out which photographer is assigned, I will let you know what they look like, since I know most of them. They would like to get your picture with all the records and since it's easiest and most natural to have the records in your home, they can come there. They just need a day's advance notice to schedule it, so let me know by e-mail what works for you.

I've got an interview set up with one of the directors of the National Security Archives today, which files numerous FOIA requests on the federal government to reveal secret military and spying campaigns that were conducted without public's knowledge. They are very respected and if the government started saying their requests were based on nutty information, then that would be the end of what they do. The director is also president of the American Society of Access Professionals, a group of FOIA researchers. He seemed familiar with some of your cases so I'll let you know what his thoughts are. Thanks again, Chris.

My comment: The photographer came on May 10, 2003. It was Rick Egan, and he was 20 minutes late. I had pulled out all my files from under the sofa and elsewhere, and he took approximately 100 photos of me. I felt like Cindy Crawford, just with files and not the glamor. Trust me, Lori Post, or whoever, took the most ugliest snapshot from the photos, one that did fit in the hostile article. Actually nobody in my neighborhood, or who I else know, recognized me in that photo or in that article. I also wondered, why Rick Egan needed 100 photos of me and not just one or two. And none of my files made it in the Tribune as promised by Chris Smith, because the article was not about the facts of my cases, it was an article to slam dunk me as kook. Thanks a lot, Chris Smith. Folks, if you get a call from this reporter or any other Tribune reporter, don't respond. They just sell you out and lie and twist the truth and the facts.

You also read again that Chris Smith contantly tried to make the impression being on my side. He cited also the George Washington University, the National Security Archive, and that they requests could be also considered nutty, if mine are. But why did he not write that in his article?

Read also installment four in this series.

Barbara Schwarz

<p><hr><p> From: BarbaraSchwarz2222@hotmail.com (BarbaraSchwarz)
Subject: Part 4: More lies and sins of reporter Christopher Smith of the Salt Lake Tribune.
Date: 14 May 2003 19:01:42 -0700
Message-ID: <a6bc00a0.0305141801.1c0fffdd@posting.google.com>

More about one of my pen pals, the very corrupt reporter Chris Smith: On May 8, 2003 he e-mailed me following: Photo? Barbara -- I haven't received any e-mail back from my earlier message to you about setting up a time for our photographer to meet with you at your apartment and they like to do it tomorrow (Friday). Is that going to work? Let me know what time would be the best-- Chris.

And another one of May 8, 2003 by him: Sorry - I got this one back, but I missed the other replies. I think our e-mail administrator has a thing against hotmail and yahoo accounts, since they sometimes get blocked. I have them to stop by at 2 p.m. at the front entrance to your apartment building and meet you there and you can take them up and show them the stacks of documents. I don't know yet who it will be but they will be carrying a camera bag and probably looking a little lost. I'll reply to your other e-mail, which I also received. Thanks again-- Chris

If you want to know what I replied and e-mailed to Chris Smith, since I met him in April 2003, you could e-mail him to post those. Sure I kept a copy, but I don't have that much time to repeat that all. Important is actually what he wrote and that his intentions were completey different from what he said and what he e-mailed to me. He collected all my e-mail, and he wanted to get even more by me even after he run his despicable story. His e-mail address is CSmith@sltrib.com.

On May 8, he wrote me that e-mail: I did interview Will Ferroggiario, who is the FOI project director for the National Security Archives and also the current president of the American Society of Access Professionals. His point was what you had said earlier - the government cannot make a value judgement on the validity of the information requested, that it must respond as "value-neutral." Meaning, even if the government thinks your request is crazy, they cannot act by law act any differently in responding than they would to a request they may think is not crazy. He said you were an example that the law works and, while he perhaps didn't think the records you thought actually exist, you acted properly within the constraints of the law and could continue using it if the outstanding fees were paid.

On that issue, I interviewed Daniel Metcalfe from the Office of Information and Privacy, in Justice and he was familiar with your cases and lawsuits. He told me that as far as the federal goverment is concerned they have not treated you any different than other requester who failed to pay an outstanding bill, and of course maintain that those bills were agreed by you in advance and were not fabricated. He said to his knowledge, only in court filings has the government characterized the merits of your request, but says the FOIA officials administratively do not judge merits. But he did acknowledge thast because of all your lawsuits and because you made so many requests, the Justice Department did take the rare but not unprecedented step of alerting other agency FOIA officials to these outstanding bills and explaining how they could reject your requests because of those bills.

And, I also tracked down one person you suggested, Bob Goldberg at the University of Utah, who studies how folks who research conspiracy theories get their message out. He was very interested in your efforts and told me that there is a context of simple reality in your requests: the government likes to keep secrets and is making thousands of documents secret each day - last year, it was 22 million. He pointed me to thge annual report of the National Archive's Information Security Oversight Office (online at NARA.gov) that shows how many government records are classified as secret each year - last year, it was 33 million.

So, I have a lot of folks interested in your cases and story, not all who agree with you of course. It was funny, but the first thing one official in the federal government said when I began calling asking about your case was "Can I ask you how you came to find out about Ms. Schwarz?" I had to lough.

Chris

My comment: I did no laugh when I read the disgusting article in the Tribune that made me to the "enemy of the state", a person that doesn't love America, but would waste governmental resources, while in fact it is the other way around. No wonder that governmental officials don't want to be approached about me. I am their "dirty little campaign and conspiracy secret". It really blows mind mind how Chris Smith could have not called the Office of General Counsel of the Veterans Affairs Department, to show him any document in which they asked me for my consent to incur $303,30 FOIA fees, or any documents that showed agreed to pay fees. I told Chris Smith and e-mailed him several times, that the VA never asked me, and I never allowed them to run up costs for me. I informed him that they mailed me 106 pages records from a recent FOIA file. 100 pages are free under FOIA laws. They could have billed me for six pages, but 303,30 Dollars are a stiff price to pay for six copies. The VA, the DOJ and all other governmental employees including Metcalfe and Huff know very well that those fees were never incurred, they were criminally fabricated to use my indigency to deny records to me that indeed exist. Otherwise they just would have mailed me no records determintions.

Mr. Ferroggiario also should not state that he believe the records don't exist, because unless a search isn't conducted, he don't know it either, and it is not professional to make such a remark. I am also not sure what kind of records he thought would not exist. Did Chris Smith tell him I asked all agencies about the submarine and nothing else? That is not so. The request for records on a submarine village were not many. My main requests were about their internal records pertaining to myself and my legal cases, and folks, they do exist and the government must have drawers of those.

Read another and the last installment in this series and I'll post it tomorrow.

Barbara Schwarz

<p><hr><p> From: BarbaraSchwarz2222@hotmail.com (BarbaraSchwarz)
Subject: Part 1: Reporter Christopher Smith lies and extremly flawed journalism
Date: 15 May 2003 09:17:45 -0700
Message-ID: <a6bc00a0.0305150817.46b9a24b@posting.google.com>

I posted those e-mails of the reporter yesterday, but they did not show up. I try it again. Some asked me to post what reporter Chris Smith wrote to me. Here it is:

4-3-03, Ms. Schwarz- I am an investigate reporter from Washington D.C. who has studied your legal cases on how the federal government has responded to your requests for information on Mark Rathbun. I have traveled to Salt Lake City in hopes of talking with you, since your cases have resulted in an unusual ruling on how and when public information may be released, which might have broad implications for the free press, I have tried to reach you via e-mail but received no response, and I have no phone number for you, could you please contact me? I am at the Marriott City Center Hotel through Friday, 801-961-8700, room 1216. Thank you, Christopher Smith."

He attached his business card with address Salt Lake Tribune, 1255 National Press Building, 529 14th Str., NW, Washington D.C. 20045, and e-mail address csmith@sltrib.com and sticked the note at my apartment door.

This is the first e-mail that I received from him, on April 3, 2003:

Ms. Schwarz -- In the hope you receive this e-mail, I just want to confirm receiving your voice mail message and the note in my hotel, Thursday, April 3. Thank you for agreeing to meet with me, I am sorry for the cloak- and dagger messages, but I knew of no other way to reach you. If you can't get up the elevator in the hotel to the 12th floor (it requires a pass card sometimes) please just call me on the houses phone in room 1216 and I will be glad to come down to the lobby. Perhaps we can talk in the restaurant or Starbucks, I am glad to buy you a cup of coffee for your time and consideration. Here is a copy of my original e-mail to you, sent January 27, 2003, that may explain why I am seeking to speak with you: Ms. Schwarz -- I am a Washington, D.C.-based reporter for the Salt Lake Tribune newspaper and have followed your legal efforts to get the government to release information to you regarding Mark C. Rathbun and related issues of the submarine base in the Great Salt Lake in both, the D.C. Circuit court and the Utah federal courts (I worked in Salt Lake for the Tribune for the past 10 years before comming here to Washington in September). I would like to do a story on your efforts and how the government has responded, both in the courts and in rejecting your FOIA requests because of an apparently brand new requirement that FOIA requesters must pay back due bills to the federal government (nothing your alleged $ 303,30 bill to the VA) before the government response to a request for public information. I recently encountered this Department of Justice decision regarding your requests when I was researching another Utah case here in Washington. As a member of the press, this is an unusual requirement that in my experience I have never encountered before. The precedent set with your requests in requiring payments of fees not related to the search and retreival of federal records has unusual ramifications for the press and the public. Is there a time or a phone number where I could reach you to discuss some background of your fights with the federal government for access to those documents? I am sorry but I don't have your phone number, although I know you list an address of Salt Lake City on your court filings. Perhaps publicity to your cause will help in prying lose the records you have been seeking for so long. Please contact me via e-mail or phone at your convenience. Thank you, Chris Smith --

Here is my comment: What despicable lies of the reporter just to get an interview and photos of me! That was not at all what he wrote about me, as everybody can read in the trashy Tribune article.

After the meeting, on April 5, 2003, I received following e-mail from him:

Barbara-- Thanks for talking so much time today to talk with me, it was nice to finally meeting you and getting to know you and understand your efforts. I will keep you posted on the progress of this story and will track down the newsgroup background that you mentioned. Until then, best luck on your efforts and my sincere appreciation for sharing the "human side" of this struggle with me.

Regards, Chris --

Here is another of my comments: I surely found out later what the guy meant with "sincere appreciation". Those reporters lie just like attorneys do. They don't even understand remotely what ethics and honesty is.

If you think that this was all to our correspondence, no, no, read more, upclose and personal in installment two of this series.

Barbara Schwarz

<p><hr><p> From: BarbaraSchwarz2222@hotmail.com (BarbaraSchwarz)
Subject: Part 2: The lies of Christopher Smith and his and extremly flawed journalism
Date: 16 May 2003 11:55:49 -0700
Message-ID: <a6bc00a0.0305161055.34473620@posting.google.com>

Here some more of how reporter Chris Smith lied to me to get an interview and photos: On April 15, 2003, he e-mailed me following:

"Thanks for your note. Since I have returned from Utah to Washington, I have been busy because Congress was in a big rush last week to get something legitimate done before they head home for these to weeks over Easter. That way they can face the voters and tell them they did something, but it makes it a headache for those of us who have to cover them. They piddle around for months and then pass a ton of bills in one ot two marathon sessions, that makes us a week or so to understand what they really did approve. By then it is too late.

One of your interested FOIA officers - not the one that said you were a 'terrorist', and he meant that with sarcasm - did indeed call me late last week to see if I have managed to find you in the flesh. He said he wanted to alert his colleagues that I had the 'first visual' with the legendary Barbara Schwarz, and wanted to know what our conversation was like. I told him, first he needs to wait until the story runs in the paper to answer those questions and secondly, he may be disappointed to discover you're not from outer space! I am hoping to get an interview this week or next with the governmental employees in the Office of Information and Privacy here in the Justice Department who came up with the unusual policy on your requests. The trouble is, when Congress leaves town, all the governmental workers also tend to take their vacations or leaves. It's sort of like when the boss is on vacation, all the employees come late, take long lunches and go home early. Washington federal worker will find any excuse not to come to work - snow in the forecast, the terror level alert is rising, or the pollen count or ozone pollution is too high. So, I am not sure, if the OIP folks will be able to do an interview with me this week, but as soon as they do sit down and talk to me about why they treated your requests differently than others, I will relay that to you.

I haven't yet had a chance to visit the newsgroup postings on your personal history, and will try to take a look at them soon, but yes, you're right, I don't think necessarily that's a part of this story. I'm mainly interested in your long and legal battle and the interesting precedent that may be set with the way your FOIA requests are being handled. And from what I have seen of other newsgroups, there are definitely people whose only purpose in life is to write nasty attacks and post them to these lists.

As far as conspiracy theories and theorists, many of my stories over the years at the Tribune - and you've come across several of them - deal with things that some people may say are conspiracies and things others may say are threats to our constitutional protections. I did a story that run on the front page on Sunday's Tribune about some of the new governmental surveillance programs - Total Information Awareness, Project Carnivore, etc. and how Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch is pushing these programs. They may sound like the rambling of a paranoid, but these programs exists exist. Since my story run I've gotten probably 20 e-mails from around the country of regular people who are worried about what implications these new laws will have on personal privacy and liberty. Interesting times we live in.

I'll keep you posted on the progress of this stoy. In the meantime, good look navigating around your crowded apartment. It sounds like my office.

Best regards, Chris"

My comments: Hard to believe that this is the man who wrote the hostile article about me in the Tribune, isn't it? Did somebody bribe him later to turn against me?

And what do you say about lazy, work-shy, federal governmental employees, director of OIP, Daniel Metcalfe, co-director Richard L. Huff, and all other federal government executives? Did Chris Smith suck that out of his fingers too, or is there some truth to it? He should have better run a story on governmental officials which don't want to work, but want to be paid, instead of trashing me. You heard it, federal governmental officials don't like to work, but they surely have time to conspire against good citizens as Mark Rathbun (de Rothschild) and I. - I often had the impression that they don't want to type our names in their records systems program for a search, because too much work, and that they feared they could accidentially break one of the corrupt fingers by hitting the keys.

You also read above, that Christopher Smith wrote, that the story will be not about my personal life, but rather on how the government denies rights and what is means for others and the media. What a liar he is.

Read more about what he wrote to me, to trick me, in the next installment of this series.

Barbara Schwarz, May 16, 2003

<p><hr><p> From: BarbaraSchwarz2222@hotmail.com (BarbaraSchwarz)
Subject: Part 3: The lies of Christopher Smith and his extremly flawed journalism
Date: 16 May 2003 13:02:27 -0700
Message-ID: <a6bc00a0.0305161202.14bca852@posting.google.com>

I decided to e-mail Chris Smith four parts that pertain to my personal life, on April 18, 2003, so that he doesn't have to dig through the ARS dirt and can save some time. However, I was thinking that he would use it as background information only, as he did not want to write about my personal life, and I did not expect that he would use parts of it, twist it around, list it not in sequence, and would also make things up, to threw that mix in his despicable article about me. That was really not the deal between us. He made me believe that my personal life would be just one or two footnotes in his article, that should be on how federal government denies FOIA rights. He wrote earlier that he doesn't like the attacks in the newsgroups, but he had no consideration not to refer the Salt Tribune readers to ARS. Too bad, he did that, because they can now also read how he lied to me.

This is what he replied to me on April 18, 2003. "Barbara-- Got all four of these, am printing out to read on the train ride home. What I've scanned would have the makins of quite a suspense novel. I have to read more, but it reminds me of a book I read about 10 years ago called "Charm School" about a secret Soviet base where kidnapped Americans were forced to teach Soviet agents how to "assimilate" into suburban America where they would be sleeper spies untill needed. I am looking forward to reading it.

Washington's bureaucrats have all basically taken this week off so I have not gotten much work done on any of my project stories, since no one is around to return phone calls. As I said, when Congress leaves, everyone on the federal government takes a little vacation too, regardless of wheater they are on the clock or not. Sounds like it's similar in Salt Lake state government offices too, since I have had a hard tiome reaching people back there in the government also. I did't think Good Friday and Easter was much of a holiday in Mormon-dominated Utah, but maybe I've been wrong.

Have a good weekend and I'll let you know how things progress next week. And I still think you ought to write a book...

Chris."

My comments: Ladies, and gentlemen, above is your tax payers money at work. Despite that Chris Smith knew how work-shy the governmental employees are, that they suck up tax payers money by not comming to work, he rather wrote his article about me in their favour, instead informing the public about what is going on inside the government.

I also did not write him, that I was forced to teach Soviet agents how to assimilate into suburban America. I wrote him that my life is not science fiction.

Below you will read that if Chris Smith twists the truth and slanders a person, it's alright, but he feels smeared, if somebody else does it, as some of the Salt Lake Tribune reporters which were found having made matters up and lied about the Elizabeth Smart family for $ 20.000. As far as Christopher Smith is concerned, he is smeared by his own unethical and false reports. Apparently, the ethics handling within the Tribune was not extended to catch Smith and his editor. They sure came away. That reminds me to the socalled "ethics handlings" within the Scientology orgs. Most of the criminal infiltrators came away, or the "ethics handlings" were done by them, and we all know what that result is.

This is the e-mail that Chris Smith mailed to me on May 1, 2003: "Yes, it is very painful to watch all the problems unfold back here - is was in the Washington Post today. I am disappointed and ashamed for what those guys did and it in no reflects on other people at the paper. But we all have been smeared by the action.

On other fronts, I managed to speak this week to a top Justice Department official who would not talk to me on the record but was involved in the decision to notify other agencies about your FOIA requests and the unpaid bill that are being used to reject your requests. He said you are being treated no differently than any other requester, although he acknowledged that it was rare for them to notify all other agencies about an individual requester. He was very interested in how I found out about you and how I met you, and he said that he and many others within the FOIA ranks have been always curious about you. I'm hoping to interview some FOIA experts this week to get the other perspectives to your case on trying to get the government to disclose public information. My editor asked me if I would ask you to see if a photographer could take a photo of you, maybe with the stacks of rejection letters or files of reponses you have to show how doggedly you have pursued this search. Let me know if you are comfortable with this, since I know you value your privacy, but it would help to put a human face on the struggle with a faceless bureaucracy. It was funny, but I aksed the Justice guy if he knew of anyone in the entire government who tried to resolve this outside of appeals, courts, etc., and he said it has been resolved by no longer processing any of your requests. So there you go. Chris"

My comments: I am not more laughing, Chris, you bloodsucking louse.

Chris Smith mentioned my privacy, but had no reservations to put all kinds of personal twisted stuff about me to hundredthousands of people and even referring them to ARS by knowing that somebody posted illegally my home address there.

Didn't he put an act on, playing my good friend, while all he had in mind was to get the interview, photos (hundreds of them) and then to trash me, to slam dunk me, instead of the "Justice guy". Is that you, OIP director Daniel Metcalfe?

You read the Salt Lake Tribune article about me. Chris Smith did not mention that the goverment did nothing to assist me, nothing to resolve anything, but that they use instead fraudulent fabricated amounts to deny my rights for records. And why should they try to resolve anything with me, if cover ups, corruption and conspiracy, flanked by reporters who lie and twist, are doing the trick?

And this is still not all. On May 7, 2003, I received following e-mail from Chris Smith: "Hi Barbara, thanks for understanding all the distractions that have been going on the past week in the newspaper business. The photo editor Lori Post, said they would be happy to take a picture with you at your convenience at your apartment, just give them a time one day this week that is convienience for you and I will ahve them mmet you outside of your apartment building. Once I find out which photographer is assigned, I will let you know what they look like, since I know most of them. They would like to get your picture with all the records and since it's easiest and most natural to have the records in your home, they can come there. They just need a day's advance notice to schedule it, so let me know by e-mail what works for you.

I've got an interview set up with one of the directors of the National Security Archives today, which files numerous FOIA requests on the federal government to reveal secret military and spying campaigns that were conducted without public's knowledge. They are very respected and if the government started saying their requests were based on nutty information, then that would be the end of what they do. The director is also president of the American Society of Access Professionals, a group of FOIA researchers. He seemed familiar with some of your cases so I'll let you know what his thoughts are. Thanks again, Chris".

My comments: Yeah, Chris, "thank you" too, you traitor! You made me surely look like a nut in your article, but if others ask for not your average kind of material, they are not called nuts. Why did you not mention what you wrote to me and said to me in your article at all?

The photographer came on May 10, 2003. It was Rick Egan from the Tribune, and he was 20 minutes late. I had pulled all my files out from under the sofas and elsewhere, and he took approximately 100 photos of me. I felt like Cindy Crawford, just with files and without the glamour. Trust me, Lori Post took the ugliest snapshot of me, because in an hostile article of mine, there should be no fair photo of me either. And for what did I had to pull my files out? They weren't at all on the picture. The Tribune wasn't interested in my files, although Rick Egan photographed me often with the files. They were just interested in me, in trashing me. They came to my house also under false pretenses, lying they wanted me with the files.

People, if you ever get a call from the Salt Lake Tribune, telling you they want to write about you and want your pictures, say no. They sell you out and bend the facts. They cheat you, they use you, and they make money with it.

You also read that Chris Smith constantly tried to make the impression being my friend, being on my side. I believe that they have acting classes in those journalism schools, where they learn to lie to others without to flash an eye lash, or somebody turned Chris Smith around in the last minute, and promised him some personal gain, trashing me and twisting the story completely around.

It's not over yet, more to come in next installment of this series.

Barbara Schwarz, May 16,2003

<p><hr><p> From: BarbaraSchwarz2222@hotmail.com (BarbaraSchwarz)
Subject: Almost last part: the lies and extremly flawed journalism of reporter Christopher Smith
Date: 17 May 2003 08:52:48 -0700
Message-ID: <a6bc00a0.0305170752.6bc97c16@posting.google.com>

On May 11, 2003, as everybody seems to know, the Salt Lake Tribune reporter Chris Smith turned on me and published his scornful, twisted and with falsehoods filled article about me, that made the communists, atheists, Nazis and governmental infiltrators cheer.

On May 12, 2003, I received following e-mail from him: "Hi Barbara - I have a tough time keeping track of your e-mails, since they seem to come from various addresses and unless I have an address entered into my computer, it automatically goes into my suspected spam file. But by now I hope you've seen the story, which if I can judge by the online edition ran on the front page Sunday in the Tribune. Naturally, some things got cut during the editing process but I was glad they gave me as much room as they did to tell the story of your crusade. I have gotten a handful of interesting e-mails from readers, including a man who worked on a brine shrimp oat on the Great Salt Lake who remembers you asking for help to locate the submarine base, and another woman who said my story left out a lot about the bad things of scientology, etc. She indicates that she has exchanged posts with you on a.r.s.. And is not exactly your biggest fan. Another reader told me that if you turned your story into a novel, it would sell like hotcakes - he mentioned a particular author it reminded him of but I'm not familiar with the writer named Erich von Daniken. Anyway, I will be interested to hear what the folks over at the Justice Department have to say when they read it, they asked me to send them a copy. And I will also be interested to know what you hear from interested people. If I am contacted by somebody who wished to reach you, what would you like me to do? My usual response is to take their name and e-mail and then forward that to the subject so that it is up to you to contect them, rather than give out personal contact information. Please let me know in case there are other folks who read your story on the web and have suggestions or questions.

Again, I appreciate you taking the time to meet with me and bring light to your case. I did see your e-mail where you mentioned New York Times reporter Jayson Blair, and that scandal. I read a long story about his fabrications in the Washington Post yesterday and it is very depressing, the lousy image that journalism has these days. What's worse is that the people who he never talked to, when they saw their quotes in his stories, just figured, what else is new. They expect the media to make stuff up. Goes to show how poorly my profession is viewed.

Best regards and please don't hesitate to stay in touch - I alsowas watch for your e-mails. Chris."

Chris Smith informed me that he had not received an e-mail by me and that the Tribune server has something against Hotmail and Yahoo, so I e-mailed him with my excite account, but my e-mails did not come from various addresses, just from two.

He wrote that some was edited away, but he got pretty much the space that he wanted, which means that he can't blame everything on the editor. Moreover, the article is written in a certain tone that the poor government is overworked and exhausted and abused by me frivolous person, and it is hard to imagine that this was not the work of Chris Smith, and all the work of the editor. Well, lets say the article was written a bit more fair by the reporter than was actually published, it is again bad journalism by the editor to cut things out to sabotage the article in a certain direction, he likes it to go.

I don't remember that shrimp boat man, I am sure I was not on his ship, but perhaps I corresponded with him. That ARS person, not my greatest fan, is or course fanatical, attacking and truth twisting Barb Graham. The man, who wrote that I should turn my story in fiction, compared me to Erich von Daniken, a European author who writes about space aliens, but I did not ask the government for records on aliens, and I also did not correspond or talk to Chris Smith about any space aliens, so I wonder where this is comming from. And why should I turn my life into fiction? My life happened, it is no fiction, it is reality.

Moreover, the Department of Justice folks will of course celebrate the story, after all, Chris Smith wrote as if he would be employed by the DOJ, covering up for them that the fees they want me to pay were completely fabricated, which he could should investigated by simply pulling the fee files and by asking the DOJ and the Dept. of VA to show him a consent form signed by me agreeing to those fees. He also failed to pull the strings in the Dept. of HHS, with Alice Tartler, a HHS employee, who wants me to pay fees for a search on name Beverly Schwarz, despite she knows that I requested search on Barbara Schwarz. Why should I pay fees for search that did not even pertain to me? Chris Smith knew that, but did not report about it in his biased article.

And what about the critic he uses on NY Times reporter Blair. It is unbelievable that he sees only the faults in Blair, but none in his own reporting that is just like Blair's? The lousy image of the press comes from lousy reporters, and Chris Smith and his editor are some of them. He planned to trash me and molded his article around that, by leaving the crimes and the cover ups of the government officials completely out. That is what he calls "fair journalism". He did talk to me, but he twisted the information that I gave him, which makes him again not better than Blair. He contacted me under false pretenses, writing me and telling me that the article would be no personal story about me, but rather an article on how the government uses fees to avoid processing of FOIA requests and how it might affect other citizens and the free press. We all know, that this is not what he wrote about in is May 11, 2003 article.

It's also unbelievable, that after that all, he tells me to stay in touch with him. Why would I want to be friend (or whatever he had in mind) with him after he smeared me? I should forgive that he deceived me so badly? I don't think so. That he wanted me to stay in touch is also some evidence that he knew very well that I am not the kind of person he portrayed in his article, because who wants to stay in touch with that kind of woman?

Read the last installment in this series, despite I could go on about him in many more sequels.

Barbara Schwarz, May 17, 2003

<p><hr><p> From: BarbaraSchwarz2222@hotmail.com (BarbaraSchwarz)
Subject: Last part: The lies and extremly flawed journalism of reporter Christopher Smith
Date: 17 May 2003 09:44:55 -0700
Message-ID: <a6bc00a0.0305170844.46a2623f@posting.google.com>

His headline "Woman's quest strains public records system" is also a multiple lie.

I told him, and wrote to him, and Chris Smith agreed with me in private, that the government could have ended my search right away by just providing me with the information, that they indeed had. They just didn't do it, but rather conspired against me, and fabricated fees behind my back, first 16,80 Dollars, alleged fees by the FBI Salt Lake in September 2001. (The FBI mailed me deliberately wrong records, records of which they knew they had sent me those before, but withheld illegally the new records.) The FBI also had no consent from me to incur the fees. Chris Smith told me that it would be unbelievable by the government to start a campaign informing all governmental agencies not more to process any FOIA/PA request or administrative FOIA appeal of mine.

I received from the majority of the federal agencies letters that they don't process my FOIA/PA requests anymore, because of the $ 16,80 unpaid fees. It was really a flood of letters, all paticipating in that criminal campaign against me.

However, after a protest to the agencies, that they ignored, I paid that fee, despite they were fraudulent, and two days later, FBI Chief Counsel Martin Schwarz wrote to me that they will again not process my request because of 303,30 Dollars fees not paid to the Dept. of VA. The days following that the decision, the DOJ, Office of Information and Privacy, coordinated that new campaign against me, and I received another flood of corrupt letters by the majority of governmental agencies, not willing to process my requests. Chris Smith told me, that it doesn't matter how much I pay to the government, they will just make up one new fee issue after the other to avoid ever having to process my requests again. However, I told and wrote to him that Hill Air Force Base in Utah first participated in the campaign, but suddenly changed their mind and processed my request. He failed to pull strings as to why they don't participate anymore. However, Air Force HQ is part of the fraudulous fee campaign.

I also told to Chris Smith, that if anybody not indigent, would want to pay the fees for me, that the agencies would lie to them, that the fees don't exist, that they can't be paid for me, despite they are fraudulent.

The governmental campaigns against me cost a lot more, that just adequately processing my FOIA/PA requests and providing me with the information. That campaign is a waste of governmental time, resources and tax payers money.

I wrote to all the governmental agencies, the FOIA officers, the appeal authorities, the heads of the agencies and the Departments, and provided them with an affidavit, that the VA (or whoever) never asked me for my consent to incur any fees, that it is criminal to bring a person in debts by not having her permission, and the fees are are fraudulent. But of course, everybody knew that, and that is why nobody, including the traitor of reporter, investigated.

Note also that the government started their fee campaign against me in September 2001. Since that time, almost no agency conducted any search to my FOIA/PA requests anymore. The headline "Woman's quest strains public records system" was not true in the first place, but was esp. not true in 2003, years after the government already decided to illegally get rid of my requests for information. The headline was completely hostile, false, outdated and misleading.

Why did he not use one of following headlines:

"IS THE U.S. GOVERNMENT ALLOWED TO INCUR FEES WITHOUT CONSENT FOR CITIZEN?" or "WHO IS CORRECTING ORGANIZED FEE FRAUD WITHIN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT?" or "WHO IS SECRETLY RUNNING THE U.S. GOVERNMENT?" or "WHY IS BARBARA SCHWARZ NOT ENTITLED TO PUBLIC INFORMATION ABOUT WRONGFUL INCARCERATION OF MARK RATHHUN (DE ROTHSCHILD)? or "IS THE U.S. GOVERNMENT INFILTRATED BY HOSTILE UN-AMERICAN FORCES?" or "THE SOCALLED U.S. GOVERNMENT REALLY STINKS AND GOVERNMENTAL EMPLOYEES DON'T WANT TO WORK, BUT THEY HAVE ALWAYS THE TIME AND ARE IN THE MOOD TO CONSPIRE." or "U.S. INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY FAILED TO SEARCH FOR FOIA REQUEST OF BARBARA SCHWARZ FOR OSAMA BIN LADEN RECORDS IN OCTOBER 2000." or "COULD HAVE SEPTEMBER 11 TERROR ATTACKS BEEN PREVENTED IF FEDERAL OFFICIALS WOULD HAVE PULLED BIN LADEN'S FILES?" or "IS BARBARA SCHWARZ REALLY THE ENEMY OF STATE?" or "CORRUPTION, CONSPIRACY, DENIAL OF RIGHTS - WILL OTHER CITIZENS OR MEMBERS OF FREE PRESS BE NEXT?" or "MEDIA DIRECTOR LINDA SIMMONS HIGHTS OF THE CHURCH OF PSYCHIATOLOGY LIED HER CHURCH WOULD BE CLUELESS ABOUT BARBARA SCHWARZ AND WANT HER TO GET PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT THAT SHE IS NO LONGER IN THE WAY OF OVERTAKING ALL OF SCIENTOLOGY." or "MY NAME IS SALT LAKE TRIBUNE REPORTER CHRISTOPHER SMITH, AN UNSCROUPULOUS SCRIBBLER, UNETHICAL FIBBER, CONSCIENCELESS FALSIFIER, PROFESSIONAL LIAR, EXPERIENCED TWISTER OF THE TRUTH AND BELOW ARTICLE ON BARBARA SCHWARZ IS AN EXAMPLE OF MY ARTFORM."

All those headlines would be more correct than the headline that the SL Tribune used.

Barbara Schwarz, May 17, 2003

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