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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.1021 [SLACK_001235] · slack_pm:msg:10657

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Date
2021-10-13 14:06
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Andrew Rambaut
speaker
Edward C. Holmes

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I have to say no

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  1. 2021-10-13 13:58 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Yup, totally understand Eddie (which I hope I made clear). I personally _do_ think there's a way to do it without setting a precedent and that's the advice I have been given - but again, totally understand you (and others) can't agree to it.
  2. 2021-10-13 14:02 Edward C. Holmes open
    Yes, but I've had 3 FOIAs directly asking for this correspondence. There's one at the moment that will likely go tocourt. My University would also object to an FOIA on the grounds that the presumption is that this correspondence was meant to be confidential. Which of course it was. Plus the emails don't get into the fact that the intelligence services were informed throughout.
  3. 2021-10-13 14:03 Andrew Rambaut open
    I am in the same position. We have been asked for huge tranches of emails and we are refusing to say what exists even.
  4. 2021-10-13 14:04 Andrew Rambaut open
    I will check with our lawyer but it only requires one of us to say no.
  5. 2021-10-13 14:06 Edward C. Holmes
    I have to say no
  6. 2021-10-13 14:06 Andrew Rambaut open
    That's what I mean.
  7. 2021-10-13 14:07 Andrew Rambaut open
    I don't know what happens if we get overruled - I guess we just have to redact them in the same way they are already redacted
  8. 2021-10-13 14:10 Edward C. Holmes open
    Ron's is the most interesting
  9. 2021-10-13 14:12 Edward C. Holmes open
    I also suspect a release would not help SAGO

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