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CIA's Public Information Programs Division tasked the search to the two directorates that were most likely to possess records responsive to plaintiffs' requests: the Directorate of Support and the National Clandestine Service. Meeks Decl. [Paragraph] 16. The Directorate of Support maintains records on current and former CIA employees and other individuals for whom security processing or evaluation was required for any number of reasons. Id. 17. The National Clandestine Service maintains records containing information on persons 'who are of foreign intelligence or foreign counterintelligence interest to CIA.' Id. 19 (quoting 70 Fed. Reg. 42418, 42449 (July 25, 2005)).
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Third, Ms. Meeks has determined, and articulates with reasonable specificity in her declaration, that the information protected from disclosure falls squarely within section 1.4(c) of E.O. 13,526, which covers 'intelligence sources and methods.' Id. [Paragraph] 32'40. If CIA confirmed or denied that it possessed records revealing a classified relationship to plaintiffs, it would correspondingly confirm or deny that plaintiffs were either intelligence sources or intelligence targets. Id. [Paragraph] 40. Confirming or denying that fact would reveal secret information about the sources CIA employs or does not employ in its intelligence-gathering function, id. [Paragraph] 32'35, or about the 'basic business practices and methodological 'tools' used by the CIA to accomplish its mission,' id. [Paragraph] 36'39.
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State initially determined that five offices were most likely to possess records responsive to plaintiffs' request: its Central Foreign Policy Records database, the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, the Office of Passport Services, the Office of Overseas Citizens Services, and the American Embassy in Sana'a, Yemen. Id. [Paragraph] 19. Based on information obtained from other responsive documents in the course of
processing Mobley's request, State determined that its Office of Legal Advisor should also be tasked with a search.
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The Bureau of Diplomatic Security, which is charged with maintaining security surrounding the conduct of U.S. foreign policy, Walter Decl. [Paragraph] 21, conducted searches of
numerous of its offices for responsive records. Specifically, the Bureau searched its Office of Criminal Investigations, its Office of Protective Intelligence Investigations, its Office of Intelligence and Threat Analysis, and its Office of International Programs. Id. [Paragraph] 22. Those offices conducted electronic searches of the Bureau's Investigative Management System and other offices' shared libraries using plaintiffs' names (including Mobley's son Charles) as keywords.
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The consular section of the Embassy searched its online database; individual Embassy employees searched their own email; and the Information Resource Management Section conducted a search using the Scan Mail application using the name 'Mobley.'
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Within that office, Legal Adviser's Records Manager conducted a broad-based search, and the Office of Law Enforcement and Intelligence conducted a search, coordinated by the Assistant Legal Adviser and conducted by several attorney-advisers in that office. Id. [Paragraph] 26. Those searches encompassed both paper and electronic files, both classified and unclassified, on both document management systems and content servers. Id. Individual attorney-advisers searched their current and email archive systems, and all electronic searches were conducted using variations of Mobley's name. |
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Stuart Delery, Ronald Machen, Elizabeth Shapiro, Judson Littleton |
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Acting Assistant Attorney General, United States Attorney, Deputy Branch Director, Trial Attorney |
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Department of Justice, Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch |
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Mobley versus CIA FOIA, Global Intelligence Files, Stratfor, GI Files |
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