Veteran Asks High Court To Decide If Factual Record FOIA Requests Can Be Withheld

Mealey's (February 10, 2021, 8:10 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The District of Columbia U.S. Court of Appeals incorrectly found that two government agencies properly withheld certain documents under the deliberative process privilege from their responses to his Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, a veteran says in his Jan. 15 petition for certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing that the documents, which he calls “overwhelmingly factual in nature” and “reasonably segregable” from privileged materials, do not qualify for the exemption....