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This March 7, 2024 letter from the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General answers John Greenewald's FOIA request for all records David Charles Grusch submitted to the DoD Inspector General. It says searches found responsive records. However, 25 pages were withheld in full under FOIA exemptions (b)(3), (b)(5), (b)(6), (b)(7)(C) and (b)(7)(E). Other documents were withheld under exemption (b)(7)(A) because they were compiled for a law enforcement inquiry that is still open. The letter also explains how to appeal.
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 4800 MARK CENTER DRIVE ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA 22350-1500 March 7, 2024 Ref: DODOIG-2024-000205 SENT VIA EMAIL TO: john@greenewald.com Mr. John Greenewald The Black Vault, Inc. 27305 W. Live Oak Road, Suite 1203 Castaic, CA 91384-4520 Dear Mr. Greenewald: This responds to your Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for “all records and materials submitted or communicated to the Department of Defense Inspector General by David Charles Grusch,” to exclude those already provided to you under DODOIG-2023-001013, from January 1, 2020, through to the date of processing this request. We received your request on January 12, 2024, and assigned it case number DODOIG-2024-000205. For your information, Congress excluded three discrete categories of law enforcement and national security records from the requirements of the FOIA. See 5 U.S.C. 552(c). This response is limited to those records that are subject to the requirements of the FOIA. This is a standard notification that is given to all our requesters and should not be taken as an indication that excluded records do, or do not, exist. The Administrative Investigations Component, the Defense Criminal Investigative Service, the Department of Defense Hotline, and the Evaluations Component conducted searches and located records responsive to your request. In order to provide you with the greatest possible access to the responsive records, your request was processed under both the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. § 552a) and the FOIA (5 U.S.C. § 552). However, we have determined that the records responsive to your request are exempt from the access provisions of the Privacy Act. See 32 C.F.R. Part 310. For this reason, we have processed your request under the FOIA. Upon review, we determined that 25 pages are exempt from release in their entirety pursuant to the following FOIA exemptions: • (b)(3), which protects information that has been “specifically exempted from disclosure by statute” in this case, the Inspector General Act of 1978, 5 U.S.C. § 407, which pertains to the confidentiality of employee complaints to the Inspector General; • (b)(5), which pertains to certain inter-and intra-agency communications protected by the deliberative process privilege. The purpose for withholding such recommendations is to encourage the free and candid exchange of opinions and advice during the decision- making process. In applying the foreseeable harm standard, we determined that disclosure of this information is likely to diminish the candor of agency deliberations in the future;
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