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Who let Lucy van Pelt into the CIA?

By Marks & Katz, LLC

From National Archives website.  Lucy van Pelt consistently invited Charlie Brown to kick a football. She held it to be kicked, but then would withdraw the ball.  Similarly, a few times recently, the National Security Archive complained in federal court that Lucy van Pelt -- I mean the CIA -- had unlawfully refused its request to be classified as a representative of the news media under the federal Freedom of Information Act, seeing that such representatives only need to pay for duplication costs of FOIA-requested documents, rather than needing to pay any fees to process the FOIA request. 5 U.S.C. § 552(a)(4)(A). Each time that the National Security Archive complained, the CIA would respond to the court with an apology, saying that such a  classification should not be denied to the National Security Archive...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on November 06, 2008 (boomark / email).