Berman

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

LARRY BERMAN,  No. 05-16820 Plaintiff-Appellant, v.  D.C. No.

CV-04-02699-DFL

CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY,

OPINION

Defendant-Appellee.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California David F. Levi, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted July 10, 2007—San Francisco, California

Filed September 4, 2007

Before: David R. Thompson, Pamela Ann Rymer and Raymond C. Fisher, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Fisher

11337 11340 BERMAN v. CIA

COUNSEL

Thomas R. Burke and Duffy Carolan (argued), Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, San Francisco, California; and Meredith Fuchs, The National Security Archive, Washington, D.C., for the plaintiff-appellant.

Peter D. Keisler, McGregor W. Scott, Mark B. Stern (argued) and Alisa B. Klein, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the defendant-appellee.

Matthew W.S. Estes, Washington, D.C., for the amici curiae The American Historical Association, et al.

OPINION

FISHER, Circuit Judge:

For nearly half a century, the CIA has each day sent the…