US. Department of Justice

Antitrust Division

Freedom of Information Act Privacy Act Unit
Liberty Square Building

450 5th StreEt, NW, Suite 1000

Washington, DC. 20530

Voice: (202) 514?2692 /Fax: (202) 616-4529

 

 

March 30, 2017

BY EMAIL


David Sirota

Newsweek/IBT

MuckRock

DEPT MR 35445

411A Highland Ave.
Somerville, MA 02144-2516

Re: Freedom of Information Act Request No. 7?068
Dear Mr. Sirota:

This letter responds to your March 28, 2017 Freedom of Information Act 
request for copies of ?all correspondence to or from Makan Delrahim to or from employees of
the US. Department of Justice?s Antitrust Division? including, but not limited to, emails to or
from dated from July 1, 2015 to December 31, 2016. We received and
assigned your request control number 7-068 on March 29, 2017. Please refer to this
control number in any future correspondence regarding your request.

Please be advised that we can neither con?rm nor deny the existence of records
responsive to your request. If records did exist, acknowledging communications between
Antitrust Division employees and private individuals Without their consent would constitute a
clearly unwarranted invasionof personal privacy, and could reasonably be expected to constitute
an unwarranted invasion of their personal privacy. Such information is, accordingly, exempt
from public disclosure in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 5 52(b)(6) and 

If you consider my response1 to be a denial of your request, you may administratively
appeal by writing to the Director, Office of Information Policy (OIP), United States Department
of Justice, Suite 11050, 1425 New York Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20530?0001, or you may

 

1 For your information, Congress excluded three discrete categOries of law enforcement and
national security records from the requirements of the FOIA. See 5 U.S.C. 552(c). This
response is limited to those records that are subject to the requirements of the FOIA. This is a
standard notification that is given to all our requesters and should not be taken as an indication
that excluded records do, or do not, exist.

 

David Sirota
7?068

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submit an appeal through OIP's FOIAonline portal by creating an account on the following web
site: Your appeal must be postmarked
or electronically transmitted within 90 days of the date of my response to your request. If you
submit your appeal by mail, both the letter and the envelope should be clearly marked ?Freedom
of Information Act Appeal.?

You may contact Ronald Wiercioch, FOIA Public Liaison, at the telephone number listed
above for any further assistance and to discuss any aspect of your request. Additionally, you may
contact the Office of Government Information Services (OGIS) at the National Archives and
Records Administration to inquire about the FOIA mediation services they offer. The contact
information forrOGlS is as follows: Office of Government Information Services, National
Archives and Records Administration, Room 2510, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park,
Maryland 20740-6001; e-mail at telephone at 202-741-6770; toll free at
1?877-684-6448; or facsimile at 202-741-5769. 

Sincerely,

Lam and 

Sue Ann Slates
Chief
CIA/Privacy Act Unit