Letter from Margaret P. Grafeld, DOS to Amrit Singh, ACLU re: the ACLU's FOIA Request. Letter states that the document production requested is being complied with in some parts and denied or withheld in part.
United States Department of State
Washington, D.C. 20520
Case No. 200303827 Segment L38
Ms. Amrit Singh American Civil Liberties Union Foundation
18th
125 Broad Street, Floor New York, New York 10004-2400
Dear Ms. Singh:
I refer to our letter dated January 12, 2005, regarding the
release of certain Department of State material you had
requested under the Freedom of Information Act (Title 5 USC
Section 552) .
As you may recall, further coordination was required before decisions could be made as to the release of three documents previously retrieved in response to your request. The coordination has now been completed for all of them and we find that one may be released in full, one may be released with excisions, and one may not be released. Copies of the released documents are enclosed.
Material in the document withheld in full is currently and properly classified under Executive Order 12958 in the
interest of national defense or foreign relations. As such,
it is exempt from release under subsection (b) (1) of the Freedom of Information Act.
Information in the excised portions of the document released in part and in the document withheld in full is exempt from release under subsection (b) (5) of the Freedom of Information Act because it is protected by the deliberative process privilege, attorney client privilege, attorney work product privilege and/or another privilege incorporated by subsection (b) (5) .
Material in the document withheld in full is of such a nature that its release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy. As such, it is exempt from release under subsection (b) (6) of the Freedom of Information Act.
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In some cases, two or more exemptions apply to the same document. In the case of a document released in part, all non-exempt material that is reasonably segregable from the exempt material has been released.
Sincerely,
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Margaret P. Grafeld
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Office of Information Programs
and Services
Enclosures: As stated.
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