Elizabeth G. Russell v. Department of the Air Force

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• holding draft history exempt because disclosure would “disrob[e] ... an agency decision-maker’s judgment”
• affirming the withholding of a draft manuscript where the draft contained twenty pages of material that had been deleted in the final version, and where the agency had not 5 yet taken a position as to the deleted materials
• “The policies embodied in Exemption [5] are as applicable to the * * * editorial review process as they are to other agency deliberations that precede agency decisions.”
• choice of what to include in “histories” was deliberative
• draft manuscript properly withheld under deliberative process privilege

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).