Posted on 09/02/2009 4:01:08 PM PDT by tobyhill
The Obama administration told a judge late Monday that it will continue to withhold information regarding past detainee policies for national security reasons, a decision assailed by the American Civil Liberties Union, which had been seeking Bush-era documents “including a presidential directive authorizing CIA ‘black sites,’” CIA inspector general records, Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel documents about the CIA's use of "enhanced interrogation techniques.”
In the ACLU’s Freedom of Information Act lawsuits, U.S. District Court Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein of the Southern District of New York had ordered the Obama administration to either turn over various documents pertaining to detainee policies by August 31 or provide justification for withholding them.
On August 31, Wendy Hilton, associate information review officer for the National Clandestine Service of the Central Intelligence Agency wrote to Judge Hellerstein stating that information about CIA intelligence activities, sources, and methods, and foreign relations and foreign activities previously classified as SECRET or TOP SECRET were done so correctly because disclosing that information “reasonably could be expected to result in serious or exceptionally grave damage to the national security, which includes defense against transnational terrorism.”
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NOTHING for us ... no records, no BC, no apologies ... I hate this man and his entire administration.
“national security reasons”
My a$$. This traitor has already released enough to get Americans killed......
National security is NOT important to Obama or he would resign knowing that he’s unfit for the job.
Why do they have to release the ONE document cheney asked for..Oh they won’t. But they don’t have to release anything else either, they just keep ‘talking’ about it in the media, making accusations with no proof of course....
It’ll get leaked to the New York Times and then the Slimes will release it and the administration will feign outrage while they wash their hands of it.
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