Since then there have been no more attacks, but the company continues to receive fake password recovery and illegitimate takedown requests at a rate of about 5-10 per day (it has accumulated about 50-60 total).
This case was just one example of the increasing limitations of companies to protect the privacy of customer and employee when confronted with illegitimate government requests.
The most favourable interpretation of these events is either that the government was following the rule of law in refusing to act on an illegitimate extradition request or it was deliberately thwarting a lawful request on the moral ground that in so doing, it was preventing the anticipated deaths of many citizens.
Independent FOIA experts, as well as the environmental groups, contend that the State Department's denial of the FOIA request was illegitimate.
The countries, which included Britain, France and Canada, endorsed a statement at a conference in The Hague saying that their goals included preventing "the misappropriation of technologies for repressive ends, inappropriate requests for personal data for political purposes, and illegitimate blocking of content".
"I've had FOIA requests rejected out of hand in ways that were clearly illegitimate," Taibbi said via e-mail.
Bidding reached $30,000, but some bids were considered illegitimate and TradeMe staff removed them, and in other cases, bidders themselves requested to be removed.
"Three years after we filed our FOIA request for basic records about the targeted killing program, and even after the D.C. Circuit issued a unanimous decision holding that the CIA's claim of categorical secrecy was illegitimate, the CIA has yet even to identify any documents responsive to our request, let alone describe them, enumerate them, or explain why they're being withheld".
"The commission's new request does nothing to address the fundamental problems with the commission's illegitimate origins, questionable mission or the preconceived and harmful views on voting rights that many of its commissioners have advanced," he said in a statement.
