Military Audit Project, Felice D. Cohen, Morton H. Halperin v. William Casey, Director of Central Intelligence

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• holding that partial disclosure of sensitive information does not render implausible the government’s claim that full disclosure would harm national security
• musing that the details of a sensitive operation may one day be disclosed “when the- story is safe to tell.”
• speculating that information revealed in a book by former CIA director William Colby represented a “fallback story” meant to cover up the true purposes of a CIA operation
• noting that affidavit “controverted by . . . evidence in the record” does not carry weight
• rejecting claim that public disclosure of some information overlapping with content of requested material results in waiver as to all information
• rejecting the petitioner’s argument that the government’s admission of error and release of additional information demonstrated that the agency was fallible and its affidavits suspect

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