Before revision: In another case brought by Electronic Frontier Foundation against the Department of Justice regarding telephone surveillance and financial records related to national security investigations, the court upheld the withholding of similar documents under Exemption over its failure to respond to EFF’s FOIA request concerning the US government’s engagement in telephone surveillance.
After revision: In his analysis, the judge cited a former case in which the Electronic Frontier Foundation sued the Department of Justice over its failure to respond to EFF’s FOIA request concerning the US government’s engagement in telephone surveillance.