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U.S. Judge: Spy Satellite Budget Must Be Released Under FOIA

Via UPI.

A U.S. judge has ordered the agency that builds spy satellites to process its budget request from last year for release under the Freedom of Information Act.

The ruling does not mean that any classified information will be disclosed, but it does over-rule the agency's claim that the unclassified parts of its so-called blue book -- the document it submits to Congress to justify its spending requests -- are exempt from the Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA.

The Federation of American Scientists filed suit in the U.S. District Court in Washington after the National Reconnaissance Office claimed its blue book was a highly sensitive "operational file" and therefore exempt from FOIA.

posted by Fergie @ 7/28/2006 08:39:00 AM