Morley v. Central Intelligence Agency

How courts have described this case

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• holding that agency’s “post hoc explanation” for why it did not search for certain documents “cannot make up for the [agency declaration’s] silence”
• recognizing that \the MOU provides its own enforcement mechanisms for procuring relevant documents from the CIA\
• holding that defendant had failed to meet its burden where it had not identified terms searched or explained how it had conducted the searches
• concluding that the CIA properly withheld information revealing security clearance procedures because its release “could render those procedures vulnerable and weaken their effectiveness at uncovering background information on potential candidates”
• concluding that the CIA properly withheld information revealing security clearance procedures because release “could render those procedures vulnerable and weaken their effectiveness at uncovering background information on potential candidates”
• concluding that the CIA properly withheld information revealing security clearance procedures because its release “could render those procedures vulnerable and weaken their effectiveness at uncovering background information on potential candidates”

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