Court Orders Expedited Handling of FOIA Request on Leaks - UPDATE
Steven Aftergood writes on Secrecy News:
A federal judge ordered the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency to respond within 30 days to a Freedom of Information Act request from reporter Joshua Gerstein for a copy of records regarding unauthorized disclosures of classified information ("leaks").More here.
Gerstein, a reporter with the New York Sun, had requested all "criminal referrals" regarding classified leaks filed since 2001; all responses to such referrals from the Justice Department; damage assessments of the unauthorized disclosures; and various other related records.
The CIA and NSA had [not] granted Gerstein's request for expedited processing but then failed to produce any records for eight months. Nor did they offer a justification for their dereliction.
UPDATE 12/4 19:36: Changed the text above to reflect Steven's comment that the CIA and the NSA had *not* granted Joshua Gerstein's FOIA request, as required by law.
posted by Fergie @ 12/04/2006 01:20:00 PM
2 Comments:
Thanks for the link, but I made a mistake and misread the order: CIA and NSA did *not* grant the request for expedited processing. In any case, the court did order them to respond within 30 days.
Ack -- see my update above to reflect that.
Thanks, Steven.
- ferg
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