Ullah v. Central Intelligence Agency

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA OBAID ULLAH, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Civil Action No. 18-2785 (JEB) CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, Defendant. MEMORANDUM OPINION This case, like many brought under the Freedom of Information Act, triggers a clash between personal and public concerns, between a family’s interest in mourning one of its own and the Government’s interest in protecting sensitive national-security information. In 2002, Afghan citizen Gul Rahman died in an overseas detention center at the hands of the Central Intelligence Agency. Almost two decades later, the…