C.I.A. Resists Disclosure of Records on Detention »
Posted By berkeley 4 months ago in Political NewsAmong the documents the agency is trying to keep classified are President George W. Bush’s September 2001 authorization for the C.I.A. to begin secretly holding terrorism suspects; cables between C.I.A. officers in the secret prisons, known as black sites, and their bosses in Washington; and assessments by C.I.A. lawyers about the legality of the detention program.
The C.I.A.’s 33-page court declaration, made public on Tuesday, said that releasing C.I.A. interrogation procedures “is reasonably likely to degrade the U.S.G.’s ability to effectively question terrorist detainees and elicit information necessary to protect the American people.”
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As the truth becomes more evident about the abuses of international law, Cheney squawks louder. If the "advanced" (illegal) interrogation methods are exposed, they will not jeopardize the CIA's ability to investigate or interrogate alleged enemy combatants, because advanced interrogation has been proven not to yield reliable intelligence data anyway.
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