Court Opinion

ID: 9479326
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 07:14:50.34628+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:46:57.447677
License: Public Domain

BOWNES, Circuit Judge
(dissenting).
I endorse fully my brother’s compelling analysis and point-by-point refutation of the majority opinion. I add a few comments of my own. What this case primarily concerns is not the protection of witnesses but protecting a government agency from public embarrassment. The record of what happened during the witch hunts of the 1950s should be made available to historians. That is one of the purposes of the Freedom of Information Act. Under the rubric of “security” and “protecting government sources,” the Act is slowly being strangled to death. The majority decision tightens the garrotte one more notch.