Freedom of Information Requests

[Cretox]

Good day. I am making the following three requests for records related to the Executive:

• I am requesting all logs from the Office of the Delegate channel in the executive staff server from the 6th of June 2023 to the 9th of June 2023 relating to the incident described in this indictment.
• I am requesting all logs from the Executive Council channel in the executive staff server from the 6th of June 2023 to the 9th of June 2023 relating to the incident described in this indictment.
• I am requesting all other government records and private government records under the purview of the Delegate per Section 7.4 of the Legal Code from the 6th of June 2023 to the 9th of June 2023 relating to the incident described in this indictment.

Section 7.4 is as follows:

Spoiler: Section 7.4: Freedom of Information Act

27. For the purposes of this section "the government" refers to the Delegate and the Executive Officers, including the departments which they oversee, the Vice Delegate and Security Council, and the Speaker's office.
28. For the purposes of this section, “appropriate officers” are those officers responsible for the types of records being requested or released.
29. The Delegate and the designated officers of the Executive are responsible for records related to the Executive.
30. The Vice Delegate is responsible for records related to the Security Council.
31. The Speaker is responsible for records related to the Speaker's office.
32. For the purposes of this section, classified information is that which fits any of the below definitions:

• Real life information about any NationStates player from which there is a risk of inferring that player's real life identity and which has not willingly been disclosed to the public, including, but not limited to, an individual's name, IP address, physical address or location, phone number, place of employment or education, appearance, social media accounts, and other knowledge about a player, unless the player in question provides explicit consent for this information not to be considered private.
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• Information that, upon being made public, would jeopardize any ongoing military or intelligence operations; or jeopardize the security of units and agents participating in them, or be harmful to the diplomatic interests, military interests, or security of The North Pacific.
• Information that, upon being made public, would jeopardize Security Council operations in response to threats and attempted coups.

33. Notwithstanding any process for publication, any information which meets the criteria to be classified will not be released.
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36. Private government records which reach one year of age will be relocated to the appropriate Declassified Archive visible to residents.
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[Gorundu]

The following logs are taken from the #foreign-office channel of the Executive server, accessible to the Delegate, Vice Delegate, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Deputy Ministers of Foreign Affairs, and Advisors to the Delegate. All times are in UTC+10 on the day of June 10. There are no other records related to the request except for those which have already been disclosed in the indictment.

Spoiler: Logs

[01:42]Ghost: So we should probably discuss getting a talk started with Euro
[01:43]Gorundu: I'd like to note the impeccable timing on this, because Euro's Presidential election is today, and with Madjack deciding to take this public, it could blow up the election. Rand may not be President by the end of the day.
[01:44]Ghost: Pfft
[01:44]Bobberino: MadJack did the right thing by publicizing this
[01:44]Bobberino: This shit rightfully should be called out
[01:45]Bobberino: Good
[01:45]Ghost: MadJack accused Euro of utilizing an agent of Euro to gather this info. What if it was a third party who wanted to stir the pot?
[01:45]Ghost: We literally don’t know who told Rand
[03:13]Chipoli: Rand is likely to get re-elected fwiw.
[03:31]Bobberino: Could I get a summary of events on this Euro thing? Because I’m hearing different things from different people and I’m trying to paint a picture in my mind of what exactly happened here
[03:32]Bobberino: I’m not privy to the channel(s) where this happened so don’t feel as if you necessarily have to, but as Deputy MoFA I’d prefer not to be in the dark on this entirely
[03:55]Attempted Socialism: And +1 to Bobberino's request. What's teh thing about Europeia? And why is St George not on the server anymore?
[03:57]Bobberino: He made a post about it, on TNP and on NS side. I’ll link both here. You may want to scroll up in TNP citizens chat as well, but that’s still not enough context for me to weigh in on this in an informed enough manner
[03:58]Bobberino: https://forum.thenorthpacific.org/topic/9197158/#post-10591842

https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1892958
[03:58]Attempted Socialism: Saw the resignation thread, but the TNP citizen chat talks about indictment?
[04:00]Attempted Socialism: Ah. NS GP, never change.
[04:00]Bobberino: So true king
[04:06]Ghost: Euro is PNGing MadJack
[04:07]Ghost: And alleges he misused information he had as a member of our government in his TRR remarks
[04:07]Ghost: @Gorundu we’re going to need details on that
[04:07]Ghost: Especially because if they were aware of MadJack misusing our info, he was commuting espionage already and they knew and didn’t tell us
[04:09]Attempted Socialism: Reading the comments in the Aegis thread aren't helpful either, except reinforcing all the invective I have used to refer to TSP.
[04:09]Bobberino: I’m a citizen there
[04:10]Bobberino: (TRR)
[04:11]Attempted Socialism: Can you shed some light on the allegations without breaking TRR rules?
[04:11]Gorundu: I'm going to get TRR's official permission to share Madjack's exact words in that TRR forum post.
[04:12]Attempted Socialism: Ah okay, that's a better approach.
[04:13]Bobberino: From my interpretation of MadJack’s post I don’t buy Europeia’s stance here at all
[04:14]Chipoli: https://forums.europeians.com/index.php?threads/persona-non-grata-of-madjack.10063408/
[04:14]Attempted Socialism: PNG = Persona Non Grata? Or something else?
[04:14]Chipoli: Correct.
[04:14]Chipoli: The statement in question
[04:14]Attempted Socialism: Must be logged in to see? But it's open to non-citizens?
[04:15]Chipoli: “Earlier this morning, former Senior Advisor in The North Pacific, MadJack, released an unsubstantiated and baseless dispatch detailing erroneous claims that the Republic of Europeia had an "agent" in The Rejected Realms. The Republic of Europeia is not engaged in any form of espionage, subversion, or spying in The Rejected Realms. We view our acceptance into the Aegis Accord as a promising development in opening dialogue and pathways for cooperation with the government of The Rejected Realms and their citizenry.

Government officials in Europeia were made aware of rumors, substantiated by quotes, that MadJack made a hostile and inflammatory comment regarding Europeia in The Rejected Realms, which was based on information he only had access to as part of his role as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Senior Advisor. It included calling our region “terrified”, our independence “myopic”, and stated that we were not supportive of The North Pacific with their recent incident with The South Pacific. Europeia sought clarification from the Delegate of The North Pacific that MadJack’s comments were not supported by their government.

We were glad to hear back that he did not speak for The North Pacific. Shortly after these baseless accusations were made by MadJack, he announced that he was being indicted for espionage in The North Pacific. We are very glad to see the government of The North Pacific taking immediate action to distance themselves from the inflammatory and hostile conduct of their former senior advisor.

President @Rand is currently dealing with a family emergency in real-life, and unfortunately does not have the bandwidth to address this time-sensitive issue. Therefore, Rand has delegated his persona non grata power to me. With that power, and due to MadJack’s unacceptable hostility to our Republic and his defamation of our region in an effort to harm our interregional standing, he is hereby labeled persona non grata.”
[04:18]Attempted Socialism:
he was being indicted for espionage in The North Pacific.
... Source? Because it's not in the Court filings.
[04:19]Chipoli: His resignation thread.
[04:19]Ghost: We plan to indict him
[04:19]Ghost: Gorundu has already confirmed that
[04:21]Attempted Socialism: Ah okay. Then you'll have to excuse me, but I'll take a step back in this so I can serve as CJ in the trial.
[04:21]Bobberino: Is TRR citizenship a conflict of interest here
[05:48]Gorundu: Here's Madjack's post now that I have permission: [REDACTED]
[05:51]Bobberino: This isn’t incriminating.
[06:09]Ghost: He didn’t commit espionage so that aspect is settled
[06:10]Ghost: The important question is who transmitted this private post to Euro, and whether it was sanctioned by TRR
[06:24]Gorundu: It was obviously not sanctioned by TRR
[06:28]Bobberino: Leaking from TRR is not going to be sanctioned by TRR