Legal Opinion
Judicial Watch, Inc. v. United States Department of Defense
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided May 21, 2013No. 12-5137PublishedCited by 130 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed PER CURIAM.
2Per curiam
Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act request seeking disclosure by the Central Intelligence Agency of 52 postmortem images of Osama bin Laden. The agency refused on the ground that the images were classified Top Secret. Judicial Watch sued, and the district court granted summary judgment for the agency. We affirm because the images were properly classified and hence are exempt from disclosure under the Act.
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On May 1, 2011, President Obama announced that American personnel had killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan and…
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