The CIA seal is displayed in the lobby of CIA headquarters in Langley, Va. (File Photo)
FAS: CIA Defends Selective Disclosure to Reporters
The Central Intelligence Agency said yesterday that it has the right to disclose classified information to selected journalists and then to withhold the same information from others under the Freedom of Information Act.
FOIA requester Adam Johnson had obtained CIA emails sent to various members of the press including some that were redacted as classified. How, he wondered, could the CIA give information to uncleared reporters — in this case Siobhan Gorman (then) of the Wall Street Journal, David Ignatius of the Washington Post, and Scott Shane of the New York Times — and yet refuse to give it to him? In an effort to discover the secret messages, he filed a FOIA lawsuit.
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Update: CIA Argues The Public Can’t See Classified Information It Has Already Given To Favored Reporters (Daily Caller)
WNU Editor: What a great arrangement for the reporters and the CIA. The CIA gets their version of the story out there, and the reporters do not have to chase stories .... the stories are given to them.
2 comments:
They probably just send it to their Operation Mockingbird contacts in the press pool.
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