Federal District Court Judge Emmett G. Sullivan ruled that the FBI must reveal the majority of the notes taken from the 2004 interview with Dick Cheney, in which the vice president discussed his role in the Plame Scandal. This ruling, in response to a suit filed by CREW this summer, allows for sections of the interview that had to do with national security could be withheld. More troubling, the parts about the communications between Cheney and President Bush will also be kept secret.

Still, CREW will apparently get 67 pages of Patrick Fitzgerald’s interview with Dick Cheney. While both the Bush and Obama administrations opposed CREW’s request, claiming a wide-range of potential problems could result from the release, Judge Sullivan noted that there is no on-going investigation, and hence no grounds to deny the FOI request.

Judge Sullivan wrote that the arguments against the released demanded the court to create a new FOI exception, something he refused to do. This should deflate any attempts to appeal his ruling. Judge Sullivan ordered that the records must be released by October 9.