Legal Opinion
Osen LLC v. U.S. Dep't of State
District Court, S.D. Illinois
Decided February 5, 2019No. 18-cv-6070 (JSR)PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JED S. RAKOFF, U.S.D.J.
This is a case about the impact of WikiLeaks on the Government's disclosure obligations under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. § 552. In response to a FOIA request filed by plaintiff Osen LLC ("Osen"), the United States Department of State ("State") produced, inter alia, 26 diplomatic cables that were in redacted form. State claims that the redacted information is exempt from disclosure *262under FOIA exemption 1, which permits an agency to withhold properly-classified materials "to be kept secret in the interest of national defense or foreign policy," and…
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