C.I.A. Resists Disclosure of Records on Detention

[spanone]

so, is the cia above the courts and the law???

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WASHINGTON — The Central Intelligence Agency is refusing to make public hundreds of pages of internal documents about the agency’s defunct detention and interrogation program, saying such disclosures would jeopardize national security by revealing classified intelligence sources and operations.

The C.I.A.’s argument to withhold the material, laid out Monday in a declaration to a federal court in New York, comes a week after the Obama administration declassified documents about abuses in the C.I.A.’s secret overseas prisons and the Justice Department began investigating the actions of C.I.A. operatives.

Among 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.” (The abbreviation “U.S.G.” refers to the United States government.)

“These interrogation methods are integral to the U.S.G.’s interrogation program” and are therefore considered top secret, said the C.I.A. declaration, written by Wendy M. Hilton, an officer in the agency’s clandestine service who reviews documents for public release.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/02/us/02intel.html?hp=&pagewanted=print

[malaise]

1. They're not even in the constitution

Fuck them

[spanone]

2. if they get away with this, then they answer to no one.

[Old and In the Way]

3. I think they are hiding what the Bush administration was really fishing for.

Corroboration, via torture, for AQ-Iraq links and WMD. If the transcripts of the questions were to get released, people will release that torture was done, not for info to prevent future attacks, but to provide cover for the lies told by Bush-Cheney to invade/occupy Iraq. I think Panetta knows this and, should this information get released, there would be national/international pressure to hold these war criminals responsible for thier actions.

[Canuckistanian]

4. Gentlemen, start your shredders

'Cause you ain't gonna be around long if those documents see the light of day.