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CIA Refuses To Disclose Interrogation Tape Documents

By ACLU

NEW YORK ? In another attempt to avoid public and judicial scrutiny of the Bush administration torture program, CIA Director Leon Panetta argued that records related to the destruction and content of interrogation tapes should be withheld in their entirety. In documents filed yesterday in an American Civil Liberties Union Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, Director Panetta argued that the documents in question should not be released because they contain information about the actual implementation of "enhanced interrogation techniques," as opposed to abstract information about the techniques such as that included in Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) memos released earlier this year. Director Panetta also argued that the release of this information could be used as "ready-made" propaganda by our enemies.

Full post as published by ACLU Newsroom on June 09, 2009 (boomark / email).