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the question was, can the cia really respond or not respond to freedom of information act request in this way? and the decision we got today is a decision that thecy cia can to that. the cia has to process freedom of information act requests. it can t claim that its interest in the targeted killing program is a secret. it is a very narrow victory in a way because if in a way all the court is saying is that you the cia have to acknowledge what everybody already knows to be true. but on the other hand, it can have significant procedural implications because it means that cia now has to explain which records it s holding. about the drones. it has to respond within the sort of four lines of the process. exactly. it can t just say, the process, we are cutting off the process before we are even responding. within the bounds of the process they have to say, well, look, there are these documents and you can t see them because these documents are very secret. right. and that s important

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