ACLU To D.C. Circuit: CIA Torture Program Report Is Subject To FOIA Disclosure

Mealey's (January 5, 2016, 12:07 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The American Civil Liberties Union argues in a Dec. 30 reply brief in the District of Columbia U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that the U.S. government did not meet its burden to prove that a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) report on the Central Intelligence Agency’s detention and interrogation program, which the ACLU sought via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, was not an “agency record” subject to FOIA disclosure (American Civil Liberties Union, et al. v. Central Intelligence Agency, et al., No. 15-5183, D.C. Cir.)....