It’s been a few months since the Heritage Foundation provided content for their “niche” British newspaper partners. Heritage is an American think-tank, but they have several British right-wing psychos attached to the foundation, and those Brits decided to waste everyone’s time and resources by going on a months-long fishing expedition for Prince Harry’s visa application. Heritage filed a FOIA request for Harry’s visa, a request which was based on nothing more than “Harry wrote about his drug use” and “how dare the American government keep sensitive immigration documents private.” DHS has rejected Heritage’s repeated attempts and nuisance court hearings to get their hands on Harry’s visa, citing Harry’s right to privacy (the same right to privacy as every immigrant). It’s not a coincidence that the Daily Mail is running this piece as an exclusive just a week before Harry’s breezy visit to the UK, not to mention the Dusseldorf Invictus Games.
Prince Harry still has a right to privacy in regards to his US immigration files despite publicly disclosing intimate and personal details about his life, the Department of Homeland Security says. The Duke of Sussex had no qualms when it came to sharing private information in his memoir Spare – in which he even includes an anecdote about his frostbitten penis – as well as his six-part Netflix series with wife Meghan Markle late last year. But the DHS has argued that such previous public disclosures does not mean his visa records should be released, in a new legal filing which sought to dismiss an appeal by conservative think tank, The Heritage Foundation, to obtain the documents.
Nile Gardiner, director of the Heritage Foundation’s Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, told DailyMail.com that the response by DHS was a ‘disgrace’. He said: ‘The Biden administration should come clean over what’s contained in the immigration application. So far they are refusing to release the records which suggests that clearly there is something to hide. Prince Harry himself should support the release of his immigration records – if he has nothing to hide’.
DHS initially rejected the application and the Heritage Foundation filed a lawsuit in a court in Washington after its administrative appeal stalled. Both sides were asked by a judge to try to work out differences on key points, but after that failed DHS filed a request for summary judgment, or to dismiss the case. In the document, DHS went further than arguing that Harry still had a ‘right to privacy’ as it has done from the start. Now it claimed that even his disclosures made in his memoir and TV series did not mean it should have to hand the documents over.
Jarrod Panter, Acting Associate Center Director for Freedom of Information at DHS, wrote: ‘Prince Harry has not consented to the release of records related to or reflecting information about him. Despite the public role that Prince Harry has played in the UK and despite information that he has disclosed regarding his personal life, he still maintains a strong privacy interest in his immigration status and information about him reflected in (immigration) records. Prince Harry has not publicly or officially disclosed his status in the United States and has not surrendered all rights to personal privacy’.
DHS wrote: ‘Even though he is a public figure, Prince Harry still maintains a privacy interest in these types of records and in his immigration or visa status generally. Even if public figures may have a diminished expectation of privacy, they do not surrender their privacy interests entirely.’ The filing added that ‘were this not the case, a requester could go on a fishing expedition for (government) records for any celebrity at all’.
There are more pissy, indignant quotes from that Heritage douchebag, but I let’s leave it at that. Heritage’s whole argument was always bullsh-t, and I’m glad DHS called them out in legal documents. If DHS granted the FOIA, they would be opening themselves up to releasing the immigration records of every celebrity, if not every immigrant. This months-long Heritage hissy fit is harassment and they need to back the f–k off.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red.
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- London, UK, 27th March 2023. Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex, leaves the Royal Courts of Justice in Central London after the first day of the phone tapping and privacy case against Associated Newspapers (owners of the Daily Mail). He is one of several claimants in the case.,Image: 765491336, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: Imageplotter / Avalon
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- Prince Harry arrives at The Royal Courts Of Justice in London, England, UK on Tuesday 28 March, 2023. He is part of a group suing the Associated Newspapers Ltd (ANL) in the High Court over phone hacking allegations.,Image: 765639969, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: Please credit photographer and agency when publishing as Justin Ng/UPPA/Avalon., Model Release: no, Credit line: Justin Ng / Avalon
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- Prince Harry departs The Royal Courts Of Justice in London, England, UK on Tuesday 28 March, 2023. He is part of a group suing the Associated Newspapers Ltd (ANL) in the High Court over phone hacking allegations.,Image: 765696114, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: Please credit photographer and agency when publishing as Justin Ng/UPPA/Avalon., Model Release: no, Credit line: Justin Ng / Avalon
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- Prince Harry departs The Royal Courts Of Justice in London, England, UK on Tuesday 28 March, 2023. He is part of a group suing the Associated Newspapers Ltd (ANL) in the High Court over phone hacking allegations.,Image: 765696131, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: Please credit photographer and agency when publishing as Justin Ng/UPPA/Avalon., Model Release: no, Credit line: Justin Ng / Avalon
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- Prince Harry arrives at The Royal Courts Of Justice in London, England, UK on Thursday 30 March, 2023. He is part of a group suing the Associated Newspapers Ltd (ANL) in the High Court over phone hacking allegations.,Image: 766139790, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: Please credit photographer and agency when publishing as Justin Ng/UPPA/Avalon., Model Release: no, Credit line: Justin Ng / Avalon
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- Prince Harry departs The Royal Courts Of Justice in London, England, UK on Thursday 30 March, 2023. He is part of a group suing the Associated Newspapers Ltd (ANL) in the High Court over phone hacking allegations.,Image: 766160529, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: Please credit photographer and agency when publishing as Justin Ng/UPPA/Avalon., Model Release: no, Credit line: Justin Ng / Avalon
The desperation is real. It’s funny to me how they keep saying William is the future and it’s in good hands with him but here you have people literally trying to force Harry to be deported based off nonsense in a desperate attempt to get him back because the royals are ineffective and losing.
lol. They actually made people in UK believe that Harry will be deported.
Yup. The losers were salivating at the thought.
All of this because his royal cult family is not able to control him anymore. What a twisted family/ institution they are. They will use this 💩 now to try to ruin any way they can the Invictus games and documentary. Well I have news for them the world is watching! What we see is an insane family/institution incandescent with rage and jealousy who do nothing but collect money from the people and give nothing in return.
I will included the britsh entertainment industry. They want to be the only people writing history. They are mad that harry is telling his story. They want to write lies. They want to flip-flop around.
@susanCollins, exactly this Susan. They hate, loath and detest that Harry has a positive press at the moment with invictus, along with the fact that even though some British tabloids are STILL trying to do the Palace bidding, they can’t go in to heavy handed over well child. They can’t understand that they, and the Royal cults underhand tactics aren’t working in the US and they HAVE to try and destroy Harry and invictus before the rage monster lands in the US to shower his majesty over everyone 🤢, they are afraid that said rage monster will be asked about his and Kates closeness to Andrew, and please god they do!!
The old “if you have nothing to hide” threat. Never fall for that. Strangely, Harry has been in the US just a few years but is contributing to Americans’ legal right to privacy.
That’s my take. We desperately needed this. Local governments are going digital but don’t understand security. You can’t explain it to them. They are -to use a british expression- thick. These people are using Google docs and Gmail. I would rather use a fax machine.
I’m DELIGHTED to hear you say that, @Apple. I have so much trouble thinking anything that goes out on the internet isn’t hackable one way or another. I agree, faxing is better than emailing because it’s one hard copy going to become another’s hard copy and it’s not hackable. It’s still leakable, of course, but not hackable. I won’t give up my fax machine or my land line. They are part of my own personal security….even if it’s all in my head, it helps my mind feel more at ease so as far as I’m concerned..all good!
I see your point, but FAXing is not all that great either, especially when you’re dealing with a government office. Who knows who is monitoring that FAX machine, if anyone. They’re generally in the copy room, or the mail room, where anyone can pick up a FAX coming in.
Harder to tamper with the US mail, addressed to a specific person.
Surly Gale – The VAST majority of faxes in official settings (business, government) are handled through app interfaces (eFax, iFax) to MS Office 365 which includes Outlook, which is (surprise!) Email. There’s a fair amount of built in security to Outlook and Exchange, but the major security is provided by organization’s IT departments, especially security directed to blocking known bad actors phishing and spamming attempts and training users to stop acting stupid by clicking on links in untrustworthy emails. Actual physical fax machines are becoming rare.
Love this. Harry has a right to privacy. Stated clearly and succinctly. Some people really need to hear this.
And by a government agency!
“Nile Gardiner, director of the Heritage Foundation’s Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom”
That line right there, how can anyone take these clowns seriously?!
Never fails to make me snicker, that reference!
@Originallala, yep and when will the likes of this idiot man Gardiner realise, that if Thatcher was alive today she would have been up in court on at least two counts that I can think of, ONE, useing government funds and aircraft to look for her missing son and the second one is Inciting violence, and allowing it to be used to be used on protesters and false imprisonment of the same
Considering what people in the UK government are getting away with, today—maybe not.
That sounds like a title straight out of 1984.
The way various arms of the British royal and media fight to abuse Harry at every turn – it’s chilling. It’s disgusting.
It’s a Murdoch world – zero media integrity.
The DHS is absolutely right and as Kaiser says this is harassment.
Just like Meghan said they don’t report the news they created it this was nothing more than the palace the Deranges trying any way to break up the Sussex’s marriage. The palace the British tabloids knows Harry is never coming back they lose their good goose that had spent years harassing the Sussex’s with every underhand trick using the legal system to do there dirty work for them . I do believe that some people thought this would work and Harry would be back with tail behind his leg that’s how Delusional this people are they are living in a completely different reality than the rest of us .
I’m so happy they can experience this reality.
The DF and a lot of similar newspapers around the world have illegally dug up dirt on famous people. I love this response from the DHS: “The filing added that ‘were this not the case, a requester could go on a fishing expedition for (government) records for any celebrity at all’.”
US government to the Heritage Foundation: famous people do not give up their basic privacy rights just because they participate in a docuseries and/or write a memoir. A so-called “freedom center” (Margaret Thatcher aside) should know this.
Nile gardiner is just trying to undermine the Biden administration. Harry entered the US in 2020 under TRUMP.
Lordy this is just exhausting sometimes. Being a public figure does not mean you surrender all expectations of privacy. Writing a memoir does not mean you surrender all expectations of privacy. Giving an interview does not mean you surrender all expectations of privacy. I mean William is a future head of state and his privacy is more protected than Harry’s.
Yes and. William unlawfully threatened a free press for over a decade, demanding privacy in public spaces that is contrary to UK law. He demands more privacy than everyday citizens have.
He threaten lawsuits through the EU Court of Human Rights (not the UK version of the law) to force English press to stop talking about the Rose affair.
As an unelected future head of state, he’s showing all the hallmarks of an autocrat. That’s something the free press in the UK needs to stop ignoring.
Just curious, post-Brexit, does the EU Court of Human Rights still apply to England?
“Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom”
As an American, it’s refreshing to be able to read something about another country and go “yikes.” It gets tiresome to constantly be the Florida of the world all the time.
Bringing the whole Biden administration into this 😂🤣😂
I shouldn’t laugh. Those MAGA maggots believe every toxic thing they are told as god’s new American gospel.
@BEANIEBEAN, yes at the moment love, but they are trying to change that as well. In a minute the UK will be a second north Korea
They’ll only back off if DHS sued them for wasting their time, which DHS should do if Heritage continues to pursue such a losing proposition.
Ooh, some more pointed words from the DHS: “A requester could go on a fishing expedition for (government) records for any celebrity” AKA we see exactly what you and your “very niche” brethren are doing.
A corollary to this is that if you were diagnosed with cancer and then wrote a book that mentioned it, the press would be able to demand access to your medical records under the pretext of either “fact-checking” or “public’s right to know”. Uh, that’s so not how it works.
How old is this Nile Gardiner? With a lot of these racist stalkers (Tom Bower, Jeremy Clarkson, Lady C-Word, Thomas Markle, Rupert Murdoch, Angela Levin) we can take comfort in the fact they won’t be around much longer. Is that the case with this guy?
Ooh, that’s dark!
Nah, he’s pretty young. Boasts about having been Margaret Thatcher’s aide, but it was at a time when she was pretty far gone and his duties probably consisted of propping her up in a chair and blotting the dribble. Best we can hope for is probably some kind of hilarious freak accident.
I have this mental image of a horse (DHS) flicking its tail at a flea (Heritage).
I don’t think that Heritage ever really wanted to win because a lot of people would then ask for Melania’s immigration records.
Rupert Murdoch should do what he can to silence this. If anyone could get Harry’s VISA application through FOIA, then anyone could get his AND his citizenship application. Is this really where he wants this to go? In fact, I believe there are several that I would like to see.
They think they can bully a US govt agency . Idiots .
Daily Mail: “How dare Harry talk about his penis yet not show us his actual penis??”
“Despite Harry talking about his penis, he has yet to put his money where our mouths are, which is squarely or cylindrically on his penis.”
“It’s been almost 9 months since Harry tantalized our island known for nonces by mentioning his penis in his memoir. We didn’t know he had one. We have by proxy of our right wing lobby in the US to demand the DHS release all known photos of Harry’s penis immediately to quench all thirsts.”
“Yet, our pleas continue to be rebuffed by DHS officials in legal documents stating, “This is super weird and pervy.”
LOL 😂😂😂
Prince Harry still has a right to privacy in regards to his US immigration files despite publicly disclosing intimate and personal details about his life, the Department of Homeland Security says.”
—Imagine that.
“The Biden administration should come clean over what’s contained in the immigration application. So far they are refusing to release the records which suggests that clearly there is something to hide.”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
“Nile Gardiner, director of the Heritage Foundation’s Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom”
—imagine Harry’s right to freedom from these idiots’ intrusions.