Hawley v. Tarbe

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• holding that agency reasonably limited its search to a three-month time period to capture documents about a specific encounter
• holding that declaration that “the foreign agency . . . requested its relationship with the FBI be classified” was sufficient to exempt information pursuant to Exemption 7(D) (internal quotation marks omitted)
• noting that confidential source’s “file number” is exempt for the same reason
• finding sufficient to meet the segregability requirement an agency’s Vaughn indices and declarations that the withheld “responsive documents were reviewed on a line-by-line basis and that no further segregation would be possible”
• approving withholding of FBI case numbers because they identified the agency’s investigative interests
• approving the withholding of “dates or types of investigations” in order “to prevent the disclosure of FBI techniques and procedures and to prevent the dissemination of information that might be gleaned from those techniques and procedures”

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