Timothy Dale Brownlee v. State of Iowa

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• holding that, although the Mueller Report “contains much information similar to information found” in a withheld memo, the presidential communications privilege was not waived in the absence of a “complete match”
• finding that the presidential communications privilege is “limited to communications ‘in performance of (a President’s) responsibilities’, ‘of his office,’ and made ‘in the process of shaping policies and making decisions’”
• no official acknowledgment where disclosed information “is not as specific as the information” in the sought record
• “There is no precedent binding on this court that recognizes the misconduct exception . . . under Exemption 5.”
• “[I]n light of [the Court’s] statement in In re Sealed Case that FOIA requests cannot overcome the deliberative process privilege . . . the court need not resolve that issue here.”

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