Home of the Free? Hmm...
(Via Boing Boing) Having recently turned away a potential client due to similar requests (though from a private U.S. corporate entity), I have some sense of how Mr. Garnier must feel.
It's one thing to make these requests if your work would involve matters of "national security" (as nebulous a term as that is). It's quite another to make such requests in the artistic/purely commercial relm.