Fox News is reporting that the FBI is blocking a FOIA request from Darrel Issa's House Oversight and Government Reform Committee for release of the tuna, potato chip, and Velveeta cheese casserole recipe found on Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's personal server. Issa's Committee is investigating a possible link between the recipe and Muslim Huma Mahmood Abedin who had access to the server and may have given the recipe to Kenyan Born, Muslim, U.S. President Barack Obama. Clinton was quoted as saying that she believed that the recipe was unclassified at the time it transmitted to her personal, unsecured server. A State Department classification expert has testified that under Department guidelines recipes, in general, would qualify for classification, in some cases as high as "Top Secret". A Fox spokesperson later said that Fox has since learned that it has been common practice for the State Department to send sensitive information coded as recipes. Recipes using expensive ingredients such Ortolans, truffles, Beluga caviar, Premier Grand Cru wines, etc., were used to code low level, less sensitive missives, and pre-prepared, every day food items such as Velveeta cheese and hamburger helper were used in coding higher level, secret communications. Recipes based on items such as Hostess Twinkies, Moon Pies and RC Cola were reserved for coding only the most sensitive and top secrete documents.
A dinner featuring Ortolans en Brochette.