Legal Opinion
Protect Democracy Project, Inc. v. U.S. Dep't of Def.
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided August 21, 2018No. Case No. 17-cv-00842 (CRC)PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CHRISTOPHER R. COOPER, United States District Judge
On April 6, 2017, President Trump ordered a cruise missile strike on the Shayrat *168military airfield in western Syria. Administration officials explained that the strike was a response to the chemical attack that had killed dozens of Syrian civilians three days earlier-one that, according to U.S. intelligence, had been directed by Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad.
The day after the U.S. missile strike, a nonprofit called The Protect Democracy Project, Inc. submitted several requests under the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") seeking documents…
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