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
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MAY 9 2005
Case No. 200303827 L40
Ms. Amrit Singh
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation
125 Broad Street, 18th Floor
New York, NY 10004-2400
Dear Ms. Singh:
I refer to our letter dated December 28, 2004, regarding the
release of certain Department of State material under the
Freedom of Information Act (Title 5 USC Section 552).
As you may recall, further coordination was required before a
decision could be made as to the release of five of the
documents previously retrieved in response to the L40 segment
of your request. The coordination has now been completed for
two of them and we find that one may be released and one may
not be released. The released document is enclosed. We will
inform you when we receive the results of the coordination on
the other three documents.
The 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.
The information 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).
In some cases, two or more exemptions apply to the same
document.
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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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