CIA refuses to release info on secret detentions

[seemslikeadream]

http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_4706.shtml

NEW YORK(IPS/GIN) - The Central Intelligence Agency has asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit demanding the disclosure of more than 7,000 documents related to the agency’s programs of secret detentions, renditions and torture.

The agency refused to release the documents in response to a lawsuit brought by three human rights groups: Amnesty International USA, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the International Human Rights Clinic at the New York University School of Law.

The CIA filed a motion with the court for a summary judgment to end the lawsuit and avoid turning over more than 7,000 documents related to its secret “ghost” detention and extraordinary rendition programs.

The CIA claimed that it did not have to release the documents because many consist of correspondence with the White House or top George W. Bush administration officials, or because they are between parties seeking legal advice on the programs, including guidance on the legality of certain interrogation procedures. The CIA confirmed that it requested—and received—legal advice from attorneys at the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel concerning these procedures.

The case is significant for a number of reasons. For example, it marks the first time the CIA “has acknowledged that it has well over 7,000 documents that relate to the torture and disappearance of men,” said Center for Constitutional Rights executive director Vincent Warren.

[Rage for Order]

1. Well now, if they did they wouldn't be secret anymore, now would they?

I imagine that's the gist of their courtroom argument

[Supersedeas]

2. hiding behind the cowards big yellow hat - the executive frat boy privilege

[bbgrunt]

3. k n r;......and it continues

[magellan]

4. At this rate, we'll all soon be able to hide behind Executive Privilege. n/t

[barbtries]

7. good point

:rofl:

[judasdisney]

5. But General Hayden released the "Family Jewels" and promised a kinder, gentler CIA

General Hayden, one of the September 11 key coup figures, is following the Rove playbook in ignoring subpoenas and implicitly daring the Democrats to challenge his naked attacks on the Constitution.

The important difference is that Hayden's CIA is smarter, more subtle, less needlessly confrontational, more surreptitious, and vitally more perniciously, pays lip service to legalities while it is breaking them.

There will be no showdown, and consequently the Shadow Government factions within Hayden's CIA will firmly establish thriving Cheneyist Sleeper Cells that will feed false intelligence to President Barack while launching destabilization campaigns against Barack to transform his one-term presidency into the Second Carter Era (replete with Hostage Crisis?) -- meanwhile luring national-level Democrats into a long-term chessboard endgame where the final move is a Lone Gunman mass-extermination of all party members at the national level ala the REX 84 Oliver North plan, a move that requires Obama to be a strategic pivot administration toward a future unnamed sacrificial Patsy President/Administration: Clinton in 2012, anyone?

There. Now that should flush out some good D.U. COINTELPRO "skepticism clampdown" specialists...

[ColbertWatcher]

6. Everything has been stamped with Cheney's special stamp...

[annabanana]

8. k&r. . . . . . .. n/t

[wildbilln864]

9. k&r!

the CIA needs to be reminded of who they are working for IMHO. :banghead: They are and must be held accountable.

[Solly Mack]

10. K&R