Moffat v. United States Deparment of Justice

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• observing that Irons “reserved the question of whether 7(D) continues to apply to the specific information that has already been publically disclosed”
• stating that “prior revelations of exempt information do not destroy an individual’s privacy interest”
• noting that the “public interest FOIA seeks to uphold is the right of citizens to understand and obtain information about the workings of their own government” rather than merely a “personal stake in th[e] information”
• recognizing privacy interests of people merely mentioned during law enforcement interviews
• discussing the strong privacy interests that weigh against disclosing identity of confidential informants
• \we question whether an agency's incorrect invocation of FOIA exemptions can ever serve as evidence of bad faith.\

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