Judicial Watch, Inc. v. Central Intelligence Agency

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ) JUDICIAL WATCH, INC., ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) No. 16-cv-449 (KBJ) ) CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, ) ) Defendant. ) ) MEMORANDUM OPINION On May 1, 2011, President Barack Obama announced that American forces had killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of the notorious al-Qaeda terrorist network, during an operation launched against bin Laden’s residential compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. 1 Over the following days and weeks, the United States government reviewed the digital and hardcopy materials that had been retrieved from the compound,…