CIA urges judge to keep detainee papers secret

[spanone]

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WASHINGTON - CIA Director Leon Panetta told a federal judge Monday that releasing documents about the agency's terror interrogations would gravely damage national security.

Panetta sent a 24-page missive to New York federal judge Alvin Hellerstein, arguing that release of agency cables describing tough interrogation methods used on al-Qaida suspects would tell the enemy far too much about U.S. counterterrorism work.

The CIA director filed the papers in a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union. The suit has already led to the unveiling of Bush administration legal memos authorizing harsh methods — among them waterboarding, a type of simulated drowning, and slamming suspects into walls — and a fight over releasing long-secret photos of abused detainees.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31176348/

[mmonk]

1. Yes, the Obama administration is a huge disappointment

on the rule of law and Constitutional matters. There really isn't anymore to be said on that issue.

[magellan]

2. Panetta calls torture "counterterrorism work"?

He's the fucking CIA director and he thinks the enemy (and several million civilians) don't know about our torture methods??

I wasn't ready to say this until a Dem took office and we continued being served the same old crap on silver platters from the new hires.

Stick a fork in the USA, we're done.

[napoleon_in_rags]

3. I was talking to a dude on the bus about Bin Laden...

We figured out that if a guy sitting in a cave can spend a few hundred thousand and get the worlds most powerful nation to spend trillions in response, rescind its own constitution, lose all its moral standing in the eyes of its intelligence citizens and much of the most world, he won. The game is over and he won. Its really an amazing feat, actually.