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Federal judge again denies ACLU request for torture documents

A federal judge in New York City on Wednesday denied for the second time the American Civil Liberties Union’s request for access to CIA documents about interrogation techniques, the Associated Press reported. The ACLU has waged a three-year battle for the release of nearly 600 different documents from the CIA that describe the use of enhanced interrogation [...]

New York Federal Judge Denies Request For CIA Secret Documents

“The judge deferred wholesale to the CIA’s determinations that information that is very similar to what the CIA has already released should remain secret,” he said. “We think the history of this case makes clear that the CIA has continually used national security as a pretext for keeping secret embarrassing information and information about illegal [...]