Kowack v. United States Forest Service

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• investigative reports prepared by the Forest Service’s Misconduct Investigations program manager were meant to assist the agency in making a final decision regarding how to deal with an employee and were thus pre-decisional
• investigative reports prepared by the Forest Service’s Misconduct Investigations program manager were meant to assist the agency in making a final decision regarding how to deal with an employee and were thus pre-decisional
• “A stand-alone fact section, for example, could likely 11 be disclosed without revealing the agency’s deliberative process, while isolated facts embedded 12 within a subordinate’s explanation of why the allegations were meritless may not be.”
• “A stand-alone fact section, for example, could likely be disclosed 8 without revealing the agency’s deliberative process, while isolated facts embedded within a 9 subordinate’s explanation of why the allegations were meritless may not be.”
• “The only public interest we consider is 22 ‘the extent to which disclosure of the information sought would “she[d] light on an agency's 23 performance of its statutory duties” or otherwise let citizens know “what their government is up 24 to.”’”

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