EPIC v. DOJ: Federal Court Rejects Secrecy Claims in FOIA Case
A U.S. judge scolded the Bush administration yesterday for responding with sometimes blanket secrecy to a request for documents on its warrantless-wiretapping program. U.S. District Judge Henry H. Kennedy Jr. said that the government's reasoning is not good enough. "While the court is certainly sensitive to the government's need to protect classified information and its deliberative processes, essentially declaring 'because we say so' is an inadequate" defense, Kennedy wrote in EPIC v. Department of Justice.
Federal judge faults Bush administration for excessive secrecy, Associated Press, September 6, 2007.
