“Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you. So even for a practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman, Trump is being really dumb to do this.”
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer
“The CIA is spectacularly terrible at responding to FOIA requests. It’s so bad it’s highly possible the perceived ineptness is deliberate. The CIA simply does not want to release documents. If it can’t find enough FOIA exemptions to throw at the requester, it gets creative.”
Tim Cushing — TechDirt (Legal Issues)
“If the CIA loses in this case, the unsavory practice of providing classified information only to sources willing to do the agency’s bidding will be dealt a setback.”
Paul Mirengoff — Powerline
“I suppose it is possible that the Government does not consider members of the press to be part of the public. I do.”
Chief Judge Colleen McMahon — Initial ruling
“A limited disclosure of information to three journalists does not constitute a disclosure to the public.”
Chief Judge Colleen McMahon — Final ruling
James R. Clapper — United States Director of National Intelligence aka the Leaker-in-Chief
January 16 2019 — Can Intelligence officials ‘legally’ disclose classified information to members of the press? From a legal point of view, the answer is a bit tricky, but the office of the DNI believes that it is legal in some circumstances. What is certain is that they are doing it quite often! Whenever it suits them… Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →
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