Frugone v. Central Intelligence Agency

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that disclosures are not “official” when “made by someone other than the agency from which the information is being sought”
• holding that official disclosure must be from “agency from which the information is being sought”
• stating that, “mindful that courts have little expertise in either international 5 diplomacy or counterintelligence operations, we are in no position to dismiss the CIA’s facially reasonable concerns” regarding harm that disclosure could cause to national security
• refusing to “treat the statements of the [Office of 10 Personnel Management] . . . as tantamount to an official statement of 11 the CIA”
• upholding the CIA’s Glomar response despite official disclosure of the same information by the Office of Personnel Management
• upholding the CIA's Glomar response despite official disclosure of the same information by the Office of Personnel Management

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

83 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Students Against Genocide v. Department of State
  D.C. Circuit· 2001-08-07· cited 535×
• Mobley v. Central Intelligence Agency
  D.C. Circuit· 2015-11-13· cited 226×
• American Civil Liberties Union v. Central Intelligence Agency
  D.C. Circuit· 2013-03-15· cited 178×
• National Security Counselors v. Central Intelligence Agency
  District of Columbia· 2012-10-17· cited 130×
• People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals v. National Institutes of Health, Department of Health & Human Services
  D.C. Circuit· 2014-03-14· cited 118×
• Electronic Privacy Information Center v. National Security Agency
  D.C. Circuit· 2012-05-11· cited 91×
• Valfells v. Central Intelligence Agency
  District of Columbia· 2010-06-17· cited 89×
• Moore v. Central Intelligence Agency
  D.C. Circuit· 2011-12-20· cited 74×
• Marino v. Drug Enforcement Administration
  D.C. Circuit· 2012-07-13· cited 68×
• Wilson v. Central Intelligence Agency
  Second Circuit· 2009-11-12· cited 65×
• Mobley v. Central Intelligence Agency
  District of Columbia· 2013-02-07· cited 64×
• Florez v. Central Intelligence Agency
  Second Circuit· 2016-07-14· cited 58×
• Coldiron v. United States Department of Justice
  District of Columbia· 2004-03-02· cited 40×
• Wheeler v. Central Intelligence Agency
  District of Columbia· 2003-06-04· cited 37×
• Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University v. CIA
  D.C. Circuit· 2021-08-27· cited 34×
• American Immigration Lawyers Association v. United States Department of Homeland Security
  District of Columbia· 2012-03-30· cited 33×
• Mahmoud Cherif Bassiouni v. Central Intelligence Agency
  Seventh Circuit· 2005-02-01· cited 32×
• American Civil Liberties Union v. Department of Defense
  S.D. New York· 2005-09-29· cited 24×
• Shapiro v. Central Intelligence Agency
  District of Columbia· 2016-03-17· cited 22×
• In re Sealed
  D.C. Circuit· 2019-07-30· cited 21×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Military Audit Project, Felice D. Cohen, Morton H. Halperin v. William Casey, Director of Central Intelligence
  D.C. Circuit· 1981-05-04· cited 1,309×
• Alan L. Fitzgibbon v. Central Intelligence Agency Alan L. Fitzgibbon v. Central Intelligence Agency
  D.C. Circuit· 1990-08-14· cited 423×
• Harriet Ann Phillippi v. Central Intelligence Agency and George H. Bush, Director, Central Intelligence Agency
  D.C. Circuit· 1976-11-24· cited 354×
• Nassar Afshar v. Department of State
  D.C. Circuit· 1983-03-15· cited 325×
• Harrison E. Salisbury v. United States of America
  D.C. Circuit· 1982-09-21· cited 117×
• Phillippi v. Central Intelligence Agency
  D.C. Circuit· 1981-06-25· cited 78×
• Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. v. Colby
  Fourth Circuit· 1975-02-07· cited 77×