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CIA emails to journalists don't have to be released to public, judge rules
McClatchy ^ | 30 Apr 18 | Tim Johnson - tjohnson@mcclatchydc.com

Posted on 05/01/2018 3:29:28 AM PDT by SkyPilot

The CIA can selectively divulge classified information to selected reporters in emails yet withhold that information from other journalists or members of the public when they seek the same information under the Freedom of Information Act, a federal judge in New York has ruled

The decision appeared in the court record on Friday but became more widely disseminated Monday.

The ruling comes amid vigorous national debate over leaks to the media and the use of anonymous sources in covering national security news, including an ongoing FBI investigation into Russian attempts to influence the 2016 presidential election.

Judge Colleen McMahon of the Southern District of New York ruled that the CIA does not have to release parts of five emails senior CIA officials sent to journalists from the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and The Washington Post in 2012. At the time, the CIA was facing pressure over links it may have had to a Pakistani doctor who helped American forces hunt down Osama bin Laden.

The ruling came in a lawsuit filed by Adam Johnson, a freelance reporter, who was represented by a first amendment lawyer in New York City, Daniel Novack.

“The Director of Central Intelligence is free to disclose classified information about CIA sources and methods selectively, if he concludes that it is necessary to do so in order to protect those intelligence sources and methods, and no court can second guess his decision,” McMahon ruled.

McMahon ruled that such communication is not part of the public domain, and that the CIA was within its rights to discuss protected information in emails to reporters of certain media outlets, just as the media outlets are protected by law when sued to divulge anonymous sources.

(Excerpt) Read more at mcclatchydc.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cia; ciajournalists; cialeaks; classifiedinfo; corruption; coverup; deepstate; espionage; foia; leaking; media; movealong; msm; nothingtoseehere; yellowjounalism
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To: USS Alaska

Speaking of doing what they do,

Is the US Congress in session?

What the hell are the swamp dwellers doing?

Working on the next years budget?

Legislation for immigration?

Are they alive?

Congress wants power and prestige without responsibility. That, and lining their pockets with insider deals (e.g. McConnell and the Chinese).


21 posted on 05/01/2018 4:23:46 AM PDT by Flick Lives
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To: Vaquero

It’s Satanist when the tip points downward.

It’s a ward against demons when the tip points upward (as in Goethe’s “Faust,” where Faust’s pentagram traps the poodle-disguised Mephistopheles).


22 posted on 05/01/2018 4:24:30 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: SkyPilot

Fascism pure and simple.


23 posted on 05/01/2018 4:38:07 AM PDT by TTFlyer
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To: sphinx

I believe that is not a Star of David but a witchcraft symbol.

Even still, including the Bilderbergs and Rothschilds in there simply makes it look like extremists.

And I love Ben Garrison’s work.


24 posted on 05/01/2018 4:44:10 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: SkyPilot

“Releasing” information selectively to handpicked outlets but keeping it withheld from others is also known as “leaking”.


26 posted on 05/01/2018 4:46:10 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Russians couldnt have done a better job destroying sacred American institutions than Democrats have)
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To: Cowboy Bob
resized for the "small" screen.

https://grrrgraphics.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/deep-state-swamp-ben-garrison_1_orig.jpg

27 posted on 05/01/2018 4:46:27 AM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: MUDDOG

As I don’t believe in demons et al, it just superstition nonsense to me.

Doesn’t change my faith in God or his punishments. Just don’t believe in demons on earth. There are enough honest to goodness, human people out there who qualify to fill that role.


28 posted on 05/01/2018 4:46:31 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you)
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To: pepsi_junkie

Time to start “nailing” the journalists and their participation in the leaking scheme.

Bring this infected pimple to a head and squeeze it.


29 posted on 05/01/2018 4:49:23 AM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: SkyPilot

Reporters don’t have to release sources or notes and their publishers are held harmless because of first amendment rights.

However, when charged with the criminal felony of conspiracy to overthrow the government a warrant can be issued for everything in the offices of the paper. Knowing what his reporters are doing, the publisher becomes part of the conspiracy. Judges who try to deflect the conspiracy charges become part of the conspiracy


30 posted on 05/01/2018 4:49:48 AM PDT by Thibodeaux (Lonmight not really matter and the conclusion g Live the Republic!)
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To: Vaquero

I think the original upward-pointing pentagram was a symbol/abbreviation for “Jesus Christos.” You can see a “J” and a Greek chi in there.


31 posted on 05/01/2018 4:53:40 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: SkyPilot

Sky—Outstanding post!

The Intelligence Community is treating the American public as a belligerent hostile power subject to the full arsenal of information warfare—and we pay their salaries to do it!

That is one of the Deep State’s “secret” “sources and methods” protected by the dirtbag judge.


32 posted on 05/01/2018 5:00:50 AM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: Thibodeaux; LucyT; bitt; generally; jazusamo; bagster; Steven W.; BenLurkin
After reading the article...

The ruling by the judge...

<>https://fas.org/sgp/jud/johnson-cia-042618.pdf

Then tackle the 576 pages of released material. Start at the end and work up....Right off the bat, Juan Williams.

<>https://theintercept.com/document/2014/09/04/email-correspondence-reporters-cia-flacks/

33 posted on 05/01/2018 5:03:24 AM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: SkyPilot

I don’t see the face of a single judge in the swamp. If the number of blackrobed crooks were included in the swamp, no one would notice the faces of the politicians. The number of blackrobes would simply overwhelm the picture.


34 posted on 05/01/2018 5:04:52 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (MSM is our greatest threat. Disney, Comcast, Google Hollywood, NYTimes, WaPo, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC ...)
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To: sphinx

It not a Star of David, it is a Pentagram, a symbol of Satanism.


35 posted on 05/01/2018 5:08:04 AM PDT by MNJohnnie ("The political class is a bureaucracy designed to perpetuate itself" Rush Limbaugh)
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To: sphinx

Sad straw man argument. Intellectually infantile illogical comment on your part.


36 posted on 05/01/2018 5:09:23 AM PDT by MNJohnnie ("The political class is a bureaucracy designed to perpetuate itself" Rush Limbaugh)
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To: Eepsy

Which Semites? Garrison has had many Muslim semites in cartoons too.


37 posted on 05/01/2018 5:10:21 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (MSM is our greatest threat. Disney, Comcast, Google Hollywood, NYTimes, WaPo, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC ...)
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To: ptsal

Grrrr.

We need to get rid of these activist judges. This is just more cover for Project Mockingbird.


38 posted on 05/01/2018 5:15:08 AM PDT by generally ( Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: ptsal

This ruling is why you Wikileaks


39 posted on 05/01/2018 5:19:56 AM PDT by Dr.Deth
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To: sphinx

Star of David is 6 points.
That, is a PENTagram (Satanic symbol), 5 points


40 posted on 05/01/2018 5:28:07 AM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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