CIA sued over violations of the Freedom of Information Act
National Security Counselors (NSC), an Arlington, Virginia-based public interest group (and legal counsel for the National Whistleblowers Center on FOIA issues), has filed three lawsuits against the CIA about how the agency handles and interprets document requests under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). According to Kel McClanahan, Executive Director of NSC, the filed lawsuits are the culmination of a yearlong effort to shed light on how the CIA processes FOIA requests and correct some of the Agency’s most egregious systemic violations of the letter and spirit of FOIA.
According to the NSC complaints, the CIA’s violations include, but are not limited to, the following:
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