I submitted the following Freedom of Information Act request to the White House today via US Mail. I modeled it after another Whitehouse FOIA request that I found online here. I’ve sent two flickrmails now requesting information regarding the Offical Whitehouse photostream on Flickr to the Whitehouse account on Flickr and have received no response. Hopefully the Whitehouse, in the spirit of Obama’s oft-campaigned promise of transparency, will choose to provide the information requested based on this formal written request. I’m writing to try and discover any correspondence that may have taken place around Flickr’s decision to delete user Shepherd Johnson’s Flickr account after he posted comments critical of President Obama on the official Whitehouse photostream. - Thomas Hawk

OK, I'm currious. Did you sign it Thomas Hawk or use your real name? :D - ChiliMac

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It will be very interesting to see if you get any response at all and if so how willing the White House is to release the requested information. It will certainly shed some light on how critical comments on the White House Flickr stream are handled. - Jeff P. Henderson

Maybe I get back nothing, but I figure it's worth a shot. - Thomas Hawk

Indeed. Thomas. Indeed. - Roberto Bonini