A federal court upheld the government’s wish to...
A federal court upheld the government’s wish to withhold certain documents on agency information sharing in Electronic Privacy Information Center v. Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The opinion was released Wednesday by the U.S. District Court for the…
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District of Columbia (http://bit.ly/GPSnY4). EPIC had been “seeking guidelines describing how the National Counterterrorism Center retrieves and safeguards information from other federal agencies” as part of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, the opinion said. ODNI had released several documents but withheld 21. “The documents concerned ODNI’s consolidation of databases containing detailed personal information on US persons,” EPIC said on its website, describing the opinion (http://bit.ly/15XAQIt). The court pointed to the importance of the intelligence community protecting its methods and past decisions in this vein, saying the National Security Agency can be seen, for this reason, to be “FOIA-proof.” To compel the government to reveal the documents could compromise security, the court said: “There is little doubt that the names of particular datasets and the agencies from which they originate would allow interested onlookers to gain important insight into the way ODNI and its partners operate.”