June 04, 2012 | Case

Judicial Watch v. Department of State and FBI (Case No.12-893)

Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and fights government corruption, announced today that it filed Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State and Federal Bureau of Investigations (No. 1:12-cv-00893)) on June 4, 2012, against the State Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) seeking records related to Anwar al-Awlaki, the American citizen and al-Qaida leader killed by a CIA-led U.S. drone attack on September 30, 2011.