Letter from Margaret P. Grafeld, DOS to Amrit Singh, ACLU re: the ACLU's FOIA Request. The 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 www.statcgol;.ni_
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Case No. 200303827
Segment L010
Mr. Amrit Singh
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation
1235 Broad Street, 18 th Floor
New York, NY 10004-2400
Dear Mr. Singh:
I refer to our previous correspondence regarding the release
of certain Department of State material under the Freedom of
Information Act (Title 5 USC Section 552) in your letters of
October 7, 2003, and May 25, 2004.
We have retrieved 169 additional documents from the Office
of the Legal Adviser which we have grouped as Segment L010.
After reviewing these documents, we have determined that 19
may be released in full, 12 may be released with excisions,
and 103 may not be released. The released documents are
enclosed. A decision on 17 documents requires interagency
or intra-agency coordination. We will inform you when we
receive the results of that coordination. Eighteen
documents originated with anot-ner government agency and have
been referred to that agency for review and direct reply to
you.
Material in five of the documents released in part and in 53
of the documents 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.
Material in six of the documents released in part and in 85
of the documents 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).
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Material in the excised portions of three of the documents
released in part and in seven of the documents 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.
Material in eight of the documents released in part and in
52 of the documents withheld in full is information compiled
for law enforcement purposes which, if produced, could
reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement
proceedings. As such, it is exempt from release under
subsection (b) (7)(A) of the Freedom of Information Act.
Material in six of the documents released in part and in 29
of the documents withheld in fall is information compiled
for law enforcement purposes which, if produced, could
reasonably be expected to constitute an unwarranted invasion
of personal privacy. As such, it is exempt from release
under subsection (b)(7)(C) of the Freedom of Information
Act.
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,
Margaret P. Grafeld
Director
Office of Information Programs
and Services
Enclosures:
As stated.
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