Government wants to argue in secret why it doesn't want to disclose the Comey memosWashington Examiner, Oct 14, 2017, Daniel Chaitin
Government lawyers asked a judge Friday to deny CNN's request to force the FBI to publicly disclose former FBI Director James Comey's memos documenting his interactions with President Trump about the Russia investigation.
The news network made the case in a lawsuit filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in June that there was high public interest in Comey's memos and that the notes were not classified, as insisted by Comey himself in testimony. CNN, along with other outlets and watchdog groups, had requested the memos under the Freedom of Information Act.
However, a report from CNN on Saturday explained that parts of Comey's memos were determined to be classified and the government argued that to make them public would "reveal the scope and focus of the investigation and thereby harm the investigation" and possible prosecutions.
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