Machado Amadis v. DOJ (D.C. Cir.) -- affirming district court’s decision that: (1) State Department and DEA performed reasonable searches for records concerning their processing of plaintiff’s prior FOIA requests; (2) Office of Information Policy properly declined to process certain DEA and FBI documents contained in plaintiff’s OIP appeal files because plaintiff’s request asked for only records “memorializing or describing the processing” of plaintiff’s prior appeals; (3) OIP properly relied on Exemption 5’s deliberative process privilege to withhold portions of staff’s appeal recommendation forms; (4) OIP reasonably explained why statute’s foreseeable harm provision was satisfied, noting that agency had considered "information at issue’” and concluded that disclosure “‘would’ chill future internal discussions”; and 5) plaintiff was not excused from administratively appealing “no records” responses issued by DEA and FBI merely because agencies offered to perform additional searches if plaintiff supplied additional information
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