How long you think they’re going to get away with this “it’s a matter of national security” shit? Or, we don’t want our enemies to knnow what we do crap? I wonder…..

New York, Jan 11: The CIA cannot reveal “alternative interrogation methods” used on terrorists because doing so would cause exceptionally grave damage to national security by telling enemies how the agency gathers intelligence, the government has told a judge.

In a document dated Friday and filed in US district court in Manhattan, the CIA said it cannot reveal more than what President George W Bush said last summer about the detention and questioning of terrorism suspects.

The American civil liberties union had asked the court to require the CIA to turn over two Department of Justice memos discussing interrogation methods and a presidential order concerning the CIA’s authorisation to set up detention facilities outside the United States.

Yesterday, ACLU Attorney Amrit Singh said in a release that the CIA court document “uses national security as a pretext for withholding evidence that high-level government officials in all likelihood authorised abusive techniques that amount to torture.”

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