Final Letter

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06145309
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: July 11, 2023
• Document Release Date: February 17, 2022
• Case Number: F-2014-02028
• Publication Date: January 8, 2014

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Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
15 January 2014
Mr. Jason Leopold
Reference: F-2014-00553
Dear Mr. Leopold:
This is a final response to your 26 December 2013 Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA) request, received in the office of the Information and Privacy Coordinator on
6 January 2014, for any records constituting, discussing, or mentioning the Central
Intelligence Agency's (CIA) internal study of its detention and interrogation
program.
We cannot accept your FOIA request in its current form because it would require
the Agency to perform an unreasonably burdensome search. The FOIA requires requesters
to "reasonably describe" the information they seek so that professional employees familiar
with the subject matter can locate responsive information with a reasonable amount of
effort. Commonly this equates to a requirement that the documents must be locatable
through the indexing of our various systems. Extremely broad or vague requests or
requests requiring research do not satisfy this requirement. Therefore, we must decline to
process such requests.
Sincerely,
Michele Meeks
Information and Privacy Coordinator
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(b)(3)
(b)(6)
IMS/IRRG/PIP1I 8 January 2014
Distribution:
Orig - Adse
1 - PIPD/F-2014-00553 CAN (Too Broad)
(b)(3)
(b)(6) FOIA
00553 Leopold CAN
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