Dot gives blank stare on lightsquared

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DoT) has responded to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by GPS World magazine for its recommendations to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) regarding LightSquared interference with the GPS signal. The DoT wrote, “We are withholding two pages [of thirteen relevant pages] in part and eleven pages in their entirety,” and enclosed two completely blacked-out pages. Kathy Ray, the DoT FOIA officer, added that “We have determined that the release of the redacted and withheld portions would foreseeably cause harm to the government’s deliberative process.”