{"id":80338,"date":"2018-07-04T11:40:20","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T15:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=80338"},"modified":"2018-07-04T11:40:20","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T15:40:20","slug":"new-york-times-foia-lawsuit-rejected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80338","title":{"rendered":"New York Times\u2019 FOIA Lawsuit Rejected"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CIA<\/p>\n

The Politico<\/a> reports U.S. District Court Judge Andrew Carter Jr. rejected arguments that President Donald Trump effectively confirmed the existence of a CIA program when he used his Twitter account last July to counter a Washington Post story.<\/p>\n

A tweet from Trump disputing Washington Post news report about a CIA program to aid Syrian rebels neither declassified the program nor undermined the government\u2019s legal authority to keep details about the program a secret, he ruled.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Washington Post fabricated the facts on my ending massive, dangerous, and wasteful payments to Syrian rebels fighting Assad,\u201d Trump wrote, referring to Syrian President Bashar Assad.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A day after sending the tweet, Trump mentioned the Post story again. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat was not something that I was involved in, other than they did come and they suggested,\u201d the president said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. \u201cIt turns out it\u2019s \u2014 a lot of al-Qaeda we\u2019re giving these weapons to. You know, they didn\u2019t write the truthful story, which they never do.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Armed with Trump\u2019s tweets, The New York Times filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request demanding details of the program, then sued when the CIA did not immediately respond.<\/p>\n

Carter ruled that Trump\u2019s statements were too vague to waive the government\u2019s right to withhold the information. The judge also went further, stating that even public discussion of the specific program by government officials was insufficient to declassify it, or give a FOIA requester any additional legal leverage to obtain the information.<\/p>\n

\u201cPermitting courts to infer whether a President declassified information would transfer the President\u2019s constitutional authority to declassify to the Judiciary, undermining the basic tenets of the separation of powers,\u201d the judge wrote in his 20-page decision, dated Friday and released Monday. \u201cHere, President Trump did not make an unequivocal statement, or any statement for that matter, indicating that he was declassifying information. This should end the inquiry.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Trump\u2019s tweets continue to drive the Lame Stream Media nuts, as they can\u2019t spin and filter them for public consumption. The New York Times\u2019 attorney plans to appeal, of course. Guess he didn\u2019t get the message. A side note, the judge is an Obama appointee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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