U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Institute for Plicy Studies v. U.S. Cent. Intelligence Agency
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- Type
- Opinion of the Court
- Filed
- July 31, 2019
- Case
- Institute for Plicy Studies v. U.S. Cent. Intelligence Agency
- Case status
- Decided
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Royce C. Lamberth, United States District Judge By making most-but not all-government records publicly available, the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) balances agency with accountability, caution with candor, efficiency with effectiveness, and secrecy with safety. In this case, national security proves a fickle fulcrum. The intelligence community routinely prepares periodic digests of disparate intelligence from ar…
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