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The CIA can selectively divulge classified information to selected reporters in emails yet withhold that information from other journalists or members of the public when they seek the same information under the Freedom of Information Act, a federal judge in New York has ruled.
The decision appeared in the court record on Friday but became more widely disseminated Monday.
The ruling comes amid vigorous national debate over leaks to the media and the use of anonymous sources in covering national security news, including an ongoing FBI investigation into Russian attempts to influence the 2016 presidential election.
Judge Colleen McMahon of the Southern District of New York ruled that the CIA does not have to release parts of five emails senior CIA officials sent to journalists from the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and The Washington Post in 2012. At the time, the CIA was facing pressure over links it may have had to a Pakistani doctor who helped American forces hunt down Osama bin Laden.
Source: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/national-security/article210169704.html
(Score: 1, Funny) by aristarchus on Tuesday May 01 2018, @08:34PM
In other words, it is kind of like aristarchus submissions to SoylentNews, only in reverse?
(Do you realize how hard it is getting to find alt-right news stories of late? I have had to resort to my original language, or at least the modern version of it, and then these submissions get rejected, either because the CIA did not directly send them to SN, or the eds are illiterate, in any language except English. I thought some of them were Brits? Oh, well.)