Robert S. Cooper, Jr. v. The Department of the Navy of the United States

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• relying on the Air Force's conclusory affidavit and \common sense\ for its conclusion that incorporating the Machin civil discovery privilege into Exemption 5 was necessary to protect the Air Force's \decisional processes\
• relying on the Air Force’s conclusory affidavit and “common sense” for its conclusion that incorporating the Machín civil discovery privilege into Exemption 5 was necessary to protect the Air Force’s “decisional processes”
• “[S]ervice people are human, too: they fear disciplinary action, work and hope for promotion, possess loyalties and ties of friendship to people and organizations, [and] dislike speculating to the derogation of others’ reputations_”
• where aircraft manufacturer’s technical representatives were given limited access to Navy Aircraft Safety Investigation on a “need to know” basis in order to effectuate the investigation’s purpose of accident prevention.
• “to be of any use opinions must have something to be ‘about’ ”
• \limited disclosures to proper outside persons as are necessary to carry out effectively a purpose for assembling a governmental report in the first place do not waive its privilege.\

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