Legal Opinion
Alexander v. Federal Bureau of Investigation
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided March 9, 2010No. Civil Action 96-2123(RCL), 97-1288(RCL)PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Memorandum Opinion
ROYCE C. LAMBERTH, Chief Judge.
In 1996 the Clinton White House informed Congress that towards the beginning of President Clinton’s first term, it had mistakenly asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation for the summary background reports of over four hundred former employees of the Bush and Reagan administrations. Some of the files requested were of high ranking political appointees; others were simply non-political, career employees. While the White House maintained that the requests were made as a result of bureaucratic bungling, others thought that something was rotten in…
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