James Madison Proj. v. CIA (D.D.C.) -- ruling that: (1) the CIA properly invoked Exemptions 1 and 3 to withhold both its 2022 assessments of so-called “Havana syndrome” and an unknown number of undescribed records responsive to plaintiff’s request for “intelligence information relied upon” and “findings made” in connection with those assessments; and (2) the CIA was not required to perform a search for quantitative or qualitative information before issuing a “no number, no list” response, because “nothing the agency uncovered could be released,” and thus there was “no utility in CIA’s conducting a further search.”
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