The US State Department has withheld 18 documents relating to Prince Harry in a fresh twist to the long-running Freedom of Information Act battle over his visa records. Court filings show the department identified the batch in late July and chose to keep all of them from public view, citing privacy and immigration law exemptions.
To recall, the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, first sued the Department of Homeland Security seeking Harry's visa application, arguing Americans had a right to know whether he was truthful about past drug use after he detailed it in his memoir Spare. That case was lost when US District Judge Carl Nichols ruled the duke's privacy interests outweighed any public interest in disclosure.
