Court to CIA: Open 'Extraordinary Rendition' Files

Matt Welch | February 4, 2005

Good news, courtesy of Secrecy News:

A federal court yesterday rejected a move by the Central Intelligence Agency to block a Freedom of Information Act request from the ACLU for CIA records concerning the treatment of detainees held in U.S. custody or "rendered" abroad to countries known to employ torture.

Court decision here; the CIA's argument here, and the ACLU's valuable FOIA trove here.

Comments

|2.4.05 @ 2:23PM|#

I'll go out on a limb and say "good thing".

PintofStout|2.4.05 @ 2:37PM|#

Would you like to buy a fish license?

M. Simon|2.6.05 @ 9:00AM|#

I will go out on a limb and predict more battle field deaths and fewer detentions.

"good thing"? Depends.