Hayden Leigh Silets v. United States Department of Justice
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
RECONSIDERATION EN BANC GRANTED
ESCHBACH, Senior Circuit Judge.
The Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”), 5 U.S.C. § 552, requires the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and other Government agencies to make their records available to the public. Various exceptions allow the agencies to keep certain matters secret. In researching a history thesis, Hayden Leigh Silets (“Silets”) requested the DOJ to provide records relating to electronic surveillance of Jimmy Hoffa and his associates from 1962 through 1964. The DOJ complied with the request, but supplied ten documents only in redacted form, claiming…
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