Nov
17
In a recent ruling, Judge Gladys Kessler INSTRUCTS the CIA on how to fulfill their responsibilities.
The case National Security Archive v. Central Intelligence Agency is so well covered at The George Washington University that I wanted to blog about it, but I found myself completely agreeing with their coverage and structure that I’m going to request that you read their post.
Straight from National Security Archive:
Reconsidering its earlier decision deferring to the CIA’s written assurances that the agency would cease illegally denying the National Security Archive’s news media status, the court ordered the CIA to treat the Archive as a representative of the news media for all of its pending and future non-commercial requests. Finding that the CIA “has twice made highly misleading representations to the Archive, as well as to [the] Court,” the court explained that the CIA’s position “is truly hard to take seriously” and enjoined the CIA from illegally denying the Archive’s news media status.
If you take nothing else away from the reading, at least click on and download each PDF so that you can see what works and what doesn’t. It’s a great resource to have court endorsed case files to work from. It would certainly be a great template for your FOIA arguments.
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