FOIA Advisor

Court opinions issued July 28, 2021

Court Opinions (2015-2023)Allan BlutsteinComment

Bonner v. CIA (S.D.N.Y.) -- concluding that the CIA properly relied on Exemptions 1 and 3 to withhold two documents related to an al Qaeda training manual, but that Exemption 5 did not protect a draft intelligence report because because “it fails to identify any agency decision-making process in connection with which the document was created.”

The Cincinnati Enquirer v. DOJ (S.D. Ohio) -- ruling that DOJ justified withholding fewer than half of 205 pages concerning third party pursuant to Exemption 7(C), and that it was required to perform an additional search for records concerning “Operation Speakeasy.”

Summaries of all published opinions issued since April 2015 are available here.