Judge turns down FOIA for bin Laden burial records

Published September 20, 2013 12:48pm ET



WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge is siding with the Navy in its refusal to release some records about the 2011 burial at sea of terrorist leader Osama bin Laden.

U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon this week turned down a bid by Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, to get the records under the Freedom of Information Act.

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