Eugene Emerson Clift v. United States

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• reversing dismissal where plaintiff had “not conceded that without the requested documents he would be unable to proceed, however difficult it might be to do so”
• declining to require disclosure where the Secretary of Defense did not invoke the privilege because of a statute criminalizing such disclosure but noting \the Government would be wiser not to put courts to this test in the future\

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