FOIA Advisor

Court opinion issued Feb. 7, 2024

Allan BlutsteinComment

Feb. 7, 2024

Bahrampour v. Nat'l Sec. Agency (D. Md.) -- ruling that: (1) NSA properly relied on Exemptions 1 and 3 in refusing to confirm or deny whether it maintained intelligence records about plaintiff; and (2) plaintiff failed to reasonably describe his request for 50 year’s worth of five categories of records unrelated to agency’s work, such as electromagnetic radiation and microwave pulses.

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