Exhibit 392

Complaint, Washington Post Co. v. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, No. 1:18-cv-02622 (D.D.C.)

Exhibit 392 · Court filing

Complaint, Washington Post Co. v. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, No. 1:18-cv-02622 (D.D.C.)

On August 24, 2016, Post reporters Greg Miller and Craig Whitlock submitted a FOIA request to SIGAR seeking records of any interviews conducted by the Lessons Learned Program with Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn (U.S. Army, ret.), who at the time was a top national security advisor to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.

Complaint with the Post's account of the prior Flynn-interview FOIA request (24 Aug 2016), SIGAR's January 2017 denial, the October 2017 suit (1:17-cv-2114) and the production to date. Allegations of the plaintiff, not findings.

Source: Washington Post Company (plaintiff)
Date: 14 November 2018
Quoted from: Complaint, Doc. 1 in No. 1:18-cv-02622 (D.D.C., filed 14 Nov. 2018), para. 14 (pp. 4-5)
Grade: Primary record
Document: https://cases.justia.com/federal/district-courts/district-of-columbia/dcdce/1:2018cv02622/201632/1/0.pdf
Accessed: 2026-11-09
Cited by: Findings citing this exhibit
Note: Paragraphs 14-17 give the Flynn chronology; paragraph 43 gives the release counts.

Cited by

Finding DEF-2.8: Primary record The Washington Post's complaint alleges that it first requested a Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) Lessons Learned interview record in August 2016 and sued in October 2017. The court record states that the Post requested all such records on 23 March 2017 and sued again on 14 November 2018, and the Post published its "Afghanistan Papers" on 9 December 2019. In 2021 the district court rejected SIGAR's deliberative-process withholding and largely upheld its other exemptions.