Opinion ID: 1237924
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: CIA Simulation

Text: Lahr next contends that the government's Vaughn index fails to identify the dates on which the government ran the NSA simulation program and whether it was the CIA or the NSA that actually ran it, arguing that he made a specific request for that information. [25] Specifically, Lahr claims that the CIA produced two printouts of the simulation with allegedly different resultsone a set of graphical charts bearing the date 5/16/97 and the other, data tables bearing two dates, 3/98 and 3/15/04. Lahr faults the government's Vaughn index for failing to state whether both records were generated from the NSA's simulation program. The documents produced and the Vaughn index sufficiently respond to Lahr's request. As to the first document, there is nothing to suggest that the graphical charts were not created on the date specified. According to the government's Vaughn index, an email accompanying the charts identifies the CIA agents involved in creating the document, but their names have been redacted under Exemption 3, a redaction Lahr does not dispute. The government's description plainly states that the graphs are depictions of the results of certain aspects of the trajectory simulation program, and the email so confirms. As to the second, it is true that the document contains two handwritten dates, but the 3/98 date is preceded by dated =, suggesting that the tables report data and results from the simulation run at that time. [26] The document also contains the redacted name of a CIA analyst involved in the simulation, as the Vaughn index indicates. The document explicitly says that the data tables are the product of the trajectory simulation program. Viewed together, the documents and the Vaughn index are sufficient to answer Lahr's challenge.