Assertion: exemption | /r/UsedFor | refer to purpose
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text: Pratt , 673 F.2d at 422-23 (explaining that "Exemption 7 refers to purposes rather than methods" and that "[w]hile many of the FBI's goals and methods in its COINTELPRO activities against the [Black Panther Party] give us serious pause," such as the goal to prevent "militant black nationalist groups and leaders from gaining respectability by discrediting them," these questionable methods do not defeat the exemption's coverage when law enforcement is the primary purpose because, "[f]rom the record before us, we cannot conclude that [the FBI's concern about violence] was implausible or irrational"); Hrones v. CIA , 685 F.2d 13,