keywords: faa foia federal congressional aviation
text: FOAI Lands FAA Conversations \\"In response to its FOIA request, EPIC has received from the Federal Aviation\Administration (FAA) transcripts (pdf) and audio recordings concerning the\request by the office of US House of Representatives Majority Leader Tom DeLay\(R-TX) to the FAA regarding the May 2003 search for the plane owned by Texas\State Representative Pete Laney (Tail Number N711RD)."\\"The May 12, 2003 audio recording of telephone conversations between the FAA's\Washington Operations Center and various FAA field employees clearly indicate\that the FAA employees were misled into believing that the request from DeLay's\office was part of 1) a formal Congressional investigation; 2) a formal\Congressional inquiry; a ...\\