Theron J. May v. Department of the Air Force and Verne Orr, Secretary of the Air Force, Individually and in His Official Capacity

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• deciding that Air Force Lieutenant Colonel promotion recommendation reports were predecisional and deliberative
• permitting the withholding of forms providing evaluations of a particular candidate for promotion
• \purpose of the privilege is to protect the decisionmaking process from the inhibiting effect that disclosure of predecisional advisory opinions and recommendations might have on the `frank discussion of legal or policy matters' in writing'\

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