Legal Opinion
Institute for Plicy Studies v. U.S. Cent. Intelligence Agency
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided July 31, 2019No. Civil Case No. 06-960PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Royce C. Lamberth, United States District Judge
By making most-but not all-government records publicly available, the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) balances agency with accountability, caution with candor, efficiency with effectiveness, and secrecy with safety. In this case, national security proves a fickle fulcrum.
The intelligence community routinely prepares periodic digests of disparate intelligence from around the world. Historically, when these dispatches fell within a FOIA request, the agency would only release the relevant portion, redacting the rest as nonresponsive. But the Court…
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