AP: CIA Defends Document Secrecy at Trial (interrogation methods)

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CIA Defends Document Secrecy at Trial
By LARRY NEUMEISTER
Associated Press Writer

January 10, 2007, 9:42 PM EST

NEW YORK -- The CIA cannot reveal "alternative interrogation methods" used on terrorists
because doing so would cause exceptionally grave damage to national security by telling
enemies how the agency gathers intelligence, the government has told a judge.

In a document dated Friday and filed in U.S. District Court in New York, the CIA said
it cannot reveal more than what President Bush said last summer about the detention and
questioning of terrorism suspects.

The American Civil Liberties Union had asked the court to require the CIA to turn over
two Justice Department memos discussing interrogation methods and a presidential order
concerning the CIA's authorization to set up detention facilities outside the United
States.

On Wednesday, ACLU attorney Amrit Singh said in a statement that the CIA court document
"uses national security as a pretext for withholding evidence that high-level government
officials in all likelihood authorized abusive techniques that amount to torture."

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