CIA Must Disclose Torture Details By Tomorrow

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The US Central Intelligence Agency must provide full disclosure of interrogation techniques and procedures by tomorrow, June 19, 2009 according to the terms of the ACLU appeal on this issue.

The US government must justify why it has failed previously to make a full disclosure of over 100 pages of redacted information regarding the torture applied to alleged enemy combatants and further demonstrate why it is in the interests of national security not to disclose the information.

The federal government traditionally relies on the "national security" defense to prevent disclosure but more frequently the courts are finding that the governments excuse is not legitimate and that there is no national security issue at stake.

The more likely scenario is that the CIA wants to avoid disclosure in an effort to limit the embarrassment they have already suffered over the use of torture and their destruction of the 92 videotapes they had made of the interrogations.

The redacted documents are thought to raise some serious questions the CIA had about the legal underpinnings of the program they were conducting and the way it was carried out

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