The CIA can selectively divulge classified information to selected reporters in emails yet withhold that information from other journalists or members of the public when they seek the same information under the Freedom of Information Act, a federal judge in New York has ruled.
Judge Colleen McMahon of the Southern District of New York ruled that the CIA does not have to release parts of five emails senior CIA officials sent to journalists from the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and The Washington Post in 2012.
The CIA had previously released 574 pages of correspondence between its public affairs office and numerous journalists, and the lawsuit specifically asked for five emails that had been redacted in that batch.
Judge McMahon's ruling indicated that the CIA may have sought to press the journalists not to publish classified information.
Novack questioned why the judge did not recognize emails from the CIA's press office to individual reporters as public records once they left the confines of the agency.
More troubling to him, he said, were earlier emails that indicated how the CIA couched its language when it communicated with journalists.
"The CIA is able to get its words out there into the public without the public necessarily seeing its fingerprints."
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Judge Colleen McMahon of the Southern District of New York ruled that the CIA does not have to release parts of five emails senior CIA officials sent to journalists from the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and The Washington Post in 2012.
The CIA had previously released 574 pages of correspondence between its public affairs office and numerous journalists, and the lawsuit specifically asked for five emails that had been redacted in that batch.
Judge McMahon's ruling indicated that the CIA may have sought to press the journalists not to publish classified information.
Novack questioned why the judge did not recognize emails from the CIA's press office to individual reporters as public records once they left the confines of the agency.
More troubling to him, he said, were earlier emails that indicated how the CIA couched its language when it communicated with journalists.
"The CIA is able to get its words out there into the public without the public necessarily seeing its fingerprints."
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/national-security/article210169704.html
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