"Based on the background information furnished by Mr. Jobs, he has no close relatives residing in communist-controlled countries."
The FBI's files on Steve Jobs
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#22Wow, interesting. A background check was initiated by the White House in 1991, since Jobs was being considered for presidential appointment?? By the elder Bush? or Clinton? The check brought up a 1984 shareholders lawsuit against Apple.
Isaacson's book mentions that Jobs and Clinton were friends. Most likely it was Clinton who was considering the appointment.
Clinton wouldn't be in the White House for two years tough, would he have asked the FBI to start a background check almost 2 years before the election?
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#23I don't know how to check this myself, but are the redactions flattened, i.e. so they cannot be removed, or are they just shapes on a another layer drawn over the relevant areas, i.e. is the redacted data still recoverable by editing the pdf?
It wouldn't be the first time a "redaction" turned out to be no more than a mere obfuscation in practise.
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#24"Based on the background information furnished by Mr. Jobs, he has no close relatives residing in communist-controlled countries."
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#25Wow, back in 1991, he was being considered for a Presidential Appointment: http://www.muckrock.com/static/foia_documents/Jobs.pdf That's what all of the documents seem to be from. To be clear, the FBI wasn't keeping tabs on Jobs because they thought he was up to no good, it was the standard background check they do when someone is being considered for a high level government position. Now the speculation starts as to…
> he was being considered for a Presidential Appointment
to the President's Export Council.
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#26Glad to see the FOIA worked in this case.
AP did a report last year showing how ineffective FOIA and similar laws are: http://hosted.ap.org/interactives/2011/foia-global/
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#30So a little more information from this document about the Presidential Appointment that was being considered:
The president was George Bush senior, and the appointment was "President's Export Council" (not Senate-confirmable) - and this was happening while he was President of NeXT.
Jobs was aware of the possibility and indeed had filled in his details on the "Questionnaire For Sensitive Positions" for it.
He stated that he had not used or dealt illegal drugs in the past five years (of interest due to his speaking in favour of LSD).