Immigration/ FOIA
Asylum petitioner's FOIA request for agency's internal report of merits of claim properly upheld under deliberative process exception.
Agency not estopped from denying claim by providing data in other similar situations.
Judicial processes exist that would allow petitioner to access the documents.
https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/400CFDA022B7BEE985257F2300573100/$file/14-5169-1589960.pdf
Since 2011. An occasional commonplacing of the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal.
Neither an authoritative statement of the law nor legal advice. Quick work.