Judge Beryl A. Howell of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia has issued an 83 page opinion on National Security Counselors' ("NSC") complaints against the CIA on a number of procedural roadblock's the CIA has put up against NSC FOIA requests to the CIA. NSC had filed three seperate lawsuits that the court consolidated into one action. Judge Howell dismissed a number of the counts of the complaints; however in doing so she described a path as to how the same counts could be heard by the court and also issued a number of warnings to the CIA that even though they won the battle, they probably didn't win the war. Some of the claims were not dismissed and that part of the lawsuit will continue.
The opinion can be found here.
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