CIA wins (another) battle to suppress the truth (and the media could not care less)

In my recent item re: the Martin Luther King Records Act, I mentioned the CIA’s resistance to the lawsuit over their refusal to release all records pertinent to JFK’s assassination. I said that the Agency was fighting “tooth and nail” against that effort.

Well, it turns out I was wrong–because the CIA had lately won its case when I sent out that email:

CIA Wins Summary Judgment (again) on Morley Case

Judge Richard Leon of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has found for the CIA in journalist Jefferson Morley’s quest for records about former CIA employee George Joannides. The case was before the court after it had previously been remanded by the D.C. Court of Appeals in 2008.

The court found that the CIA had properly searched for records after the remand of the case and also approved of the withholdings made pursuant to FOIA exemptions 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6 as well as the use of glomar for other records. Morley did receive a number of documents upon the remand search, but he sought more in opposing the CIA’s motion for summary judgment.

It is likely that Morley will appeal this decision.

The decision can be found here: Download Morley: http://thefoiablog.typepad.com/files/morley.pdf

Now, if I didn’t have a friend who happens to be up on all of this, I never would have known about this legal victory by the Agency – whose efforts to suppress the truth succeed so well because our “free press” so obligingly ignores them.

MCM

http://markcrispinmiller.com/

Change the law if you're not getting enough paper. I've had nothing but good responses with the CIA's FOIA office. :shrug:

:hi:

They're going to try to out run him. I hope he doesn't give up.

From the PDF:


:shrug:

:shrug:

Not an unreasonable assumption for docs of that age.

Again, my experience has been the CIA's FOIA office have been great. I even got a follow-up on a project I'd abandoned when someone else got the info first -- a phone call, of all things, with a guy saying he knew the info was public now, but if I still wanted it to call him back.

Granted, a message on your machine from the CIA is a little surprising at first. I called him back to thank him; it was like talking to a librarian.

I'm sure Hitler employed nice librarians, too. I worked with a lot of nice people when I translated for the DEA.

Photo: In July 1981, retired CIA undercover officer George Joannides (left) received the Distinguished Intelligence Medal for "exceptional achievement" from deputy CIA director Bobby Ray Inman. Among Joannides' achievements were concealing from JFK investigatiors his role in guiding and monitoring a Cuban exile group that gathered intelligence and generated propaganda about accused presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald before President Kennedy was killed. (Credit: CIA)
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