{"id":260,"date":"2015-05-21T19:39:50","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T19:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2015\/05\/21\/court-rules-that-cia-can-keep-secret-the\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:25:13","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:25:13","slug":"court-rules-that-cia-can-keep-secret-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2015\/05\/21\/court-rules-that-cia-can-keep-secret-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Rules That CIA Can Keep Secret the 7,000-Page Senate Torture Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

matthewaid<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

May 21, 2015<\/p>\n

Court sides with CIA, \u2018torture\u2019 reports to stay secret<\/b><\/p>\n

Michael Doyle<\/p>\n

McClatchy News<\/p>\n

May 21, 2015<\/p>\n

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\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0WASHINGTON \u2014 The CIA can keep
\nsecret a nearly 7,000-page Senate report on harsh interrogation methods,
\n as well as an internal agency review, a federal judge has ruled.<\/p>\n

The
\n complete 6,963-page report compiled by the Senate Select Committee on
\nIntelligence, and the related \u201cPanetta review,\u201d are exempt from the
\ndictates of the Freedom of Information Act, U.S. District Judge James E.
\n Boasberg concluded.<\/p>\n

Though noting that \u201cthis case is no slam dunk for the government,\u201d Boasberg in \u00a0his 26-page decision Wednesday<\/a>
\n rejected the ACLU\u2019s arguments for disclosure. The Senate committee
\nreport, he reasoned, remained a document under congressional control,
\nand Congress made sure to exempt itself from FOIA.<\/p>\n

\u201cCongress has
\nundoubted authority to keep its records secret, authority rooted in the
\nConstitution, longstanding practice, and current congressional rules,\u201d
\nBoasberg stated.<\/p>\n

The fact that the Senate intelligence panel had
\nforwarded a copy of the full report to the CIA, Boasberg added, \u201cshould
\nnot be readily interpreted to suggest more wholesale abdication of
\ncontrol.\u201d <\/p>\n

Hina Shamsi, director of the ACLU National Security Project, voiced disappointment in the ruling.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe
\n direct, contemporaneous evidence shows that the full torture report is
\nsubject to the FOIA because Congress sent it to the executive branch
\nwith instructions that it be broadly used to ensure torture never
\nhappens again,\u201d Shamsi said in a statement. \u201cThe Senate\u2019s landmark
\ninvestigation into a dark period in our nation\u2019s history should not stay
\n behind closed government doors, but needs to see the light of day.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the current Senate committee chairman, Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., said he was pleased.<\/p>\n

Further
\n release of this highly classified document will compromise the national
\n security of the United States and needlessly put Americans lives at
\nrisk,\u201d Burr said.<\/p>\n

The Senate committee \u00a0released a summary <\/a>of the \u00a0$40 million report<\/a> last December, following years of back-and-forth.<\/p>\n

In
\n its a June 2009 letter to the CIA, the Senate committee specified that
\nthe documents it generated during its investigation \u201cremain
\ncongressional records in their entirety and disposition\u201d and that
\n\u201ccontrol over these records, even after the completion of the
\nCommittee\u2019s review,\u201d would \u201clie exclusively with the Committee.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAt
\n the end of the day,\u201d Boasberg wrote, \u201cthe ACLU asks the court to
\ninterject itself into a high-profile conversation that has been carried
\nout in a thoughtful and careful way by the other two branches of
\ngovernment. As this is no trivial invitation, it should not be blithely
\naccepted.<\/p>\n

(The ACLU) and the public may well ultimately gain
\naccess to the document it seeks,\u201d Boasberg added. \u201cBut it is not for the
\n Court to expedite that process.\u201d<\/p>\n

Boasberg more quickly dismissed
\nthe related FOIA request for the agency\u2019s internal \u201cPanetta review,\u201d
\nnoting a previous FOIA request for the documents by journalist Jason
\nLeopold had likewise been rejected. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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