The following excerpt is from High Tech Gays v. Defense Indus. Sec. Clearance Office, 895 F.2d 563 (9th Cir. 1990):
Predictive judgment of this kind must be made by those with the necessary expertise.... [T]he protection of classified information must be committed to the broad discretion of the agency responsible, and this must include broad discretion to determine who may have access to it.... [C]ourts traditionally have been reluctant to intrude upon the authority of the Executive in military and national security affairs.
Department of Navy v. Egan, 484 U.S. 518, 108 S.Ct. 818, 825, 98 L.Ed.2d 918 (1988).
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