CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS v. C.I.A.

No. 13-3684-cv.

765 F.3d 161 (2014)

CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, Department of Defense, Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Defense Intelligence Agency, United States Southern Command, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: September 2, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence S. Lustberg ( Joseph A. Pace , on the brief), Gibbons P.C., Newark, NJ, for Plaintiff-Appellant Center for Constitutional Rights.

Tara M. La Morte ( Emily E. Daughtry , Benjamin H. Torrance , on the brief), Assistant United States Attorneys, for Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, N.Y., for Defendants-Appellees Central Intelligence Agency et al.

Before: CABRANES, CARNEY, and DRONEY, Circuit Judges.


JOSÉ A. CABRANES, Circuit Judge:

Appellant Center for Constitutional Rights ("CCR") seeks disclosure, pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA"), principally by the Department of Defense ("DoD") and the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI" and, jointly with the DoD, the "government") of certain videos and photographs of a high-profile Guantanamo Bay detainee, Mohammed al-Qahtani, who is believed to be the so-called "20th hijacker" in the September...

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