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يوم الإثنين, فبراير - شباط [16ث], 2009

خلقت ك خاصّة حقيقة? أسرار [سوبليمينل] يعرض أبدا [ليد] إلى ثانية! ماذا أنت يكون لا تفترض أن يعرف

واشنطن ([أب])? على الرغم من رئيس [أبما]' [س] يدافع قسم أن يفتح حكومة أكثر من في أيّ وقت, العدل قسم [بوش دمينيسترأيشن] قرارات أن يحافظ سر كثير وثائق حول [ويرتبّينغ] محلّية, [دتا كلّكأيشن] على مسافرات والولايات المتّحدة الأمريكيّة مواطنات, وإستجواب من يشكّ إرهابيات.

في [هلف ا دوزن] قضايا, عدل قد تعارض محاميات حركات رسميّة أو يزدرى أعراض [أوت-وف-كورت] إلى يؤخّرون [كورت كأيشن] إلى أن الجديدة إدارة [روريتس] حرية من معلومة عمل [غيدلينس] ويقرّر ما إذا القواعد جديدة أمكن سمحت الجمهور أن يرى أكثر.

يتلقّى في فقط واحدة حالة العدل قسم يوافق أن يعلق [فويا] قضية حتّى ال يتنازع وثائق يستطيع كنت [ر-فلوتد] تحت ال [يت-تو-ب-وريتّن] [غيدلينس]. That case involves negotiations on an anti-counterfeiting treaty, not the more controversial, secret anti-terrorism tactics that spawned the other lawsuits as well as Obama’s promises of greater openness.

"مشجّع الإشارات في الأيام [لت فو] لا كلّيّا," قال [جميل] [جفّر], وكيلة ل ال أمريكيّة [سفيل ليبرتي] إتحاد, أيّ صنّف عدّة قضايا يبحث ال [بوش دمينيسترأيشن] جائز تفسير سبب ل [ويرتبّينغ] [ورّنتلسّ] محلّية ولمعالجته من إرهاب معتقلات.

كان مجموعة أنّ يدافع حكومة مفتوحة, [سفيل ليبرتي] وعزلة [أفرجود] أنّ [أبما] على يومه أولى في مكتب عكس ال [فويا] سياسة يفرض ببوش نائب عامّ أولى, جون [أشكروفت]. بوش عدل قال قسم هو استعمل أيّ [لغل بسس] شرعيّة أن يدافع يحتجز سجلات من الجمهور. [أبما] رهن "مستوى منقطع نظير انفتاح في حكومة" وأمر جديدة [فويا] [غيدلينس] يكتب مع "افتراض [إين ففوور وف] كشف."

غير أنّ عدل قد صبّ أعمال في محاكم [سنس ثن] شك على [هوو فر] الإدارة جديدة سيذهب.

في [فويا] حالة يبحث منفذة إلى القواعد يحكم ال [فبي]' [س] تحقيقيّة معطيات مستودع? حاسوب قاعدة معطيات يحتوي 1 بليون وثائق [سرشبل] حول أمريكيات وأجنبيات? ليس عدل محاميات قالوا محكمة جهويّة هنا يوم الخميس, "هو واضحة أنّ ال [غيدلينس] جديدة, ما إن يصدر, كنت استعاديّة إلى [فويا] يرجو أنّ الوكالة سابقا قد أنهى يعالج."

هم سألوا المحكمة أن يحكم بدلا من ذلك أنّ قد أتمّ ال [فبي] كافي. The bureau has reviewed 878 pages, withheld 76 and released some portions of 802.

To withhold some material, the FBI cited discretionary FOIA exemptions and ones that require balancing privacy and public interests. David Sobel, attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco-based group that advocates civil liberties in cyberspace and brought the lawsuit, said those decisions might come out differently under the new guidelines.

The issue isn’t retroactivity, Sobel said. “The issue is whether the new administration is going to devote legal resources to fighting old battles now that the president has announced a fundamental change in the government’s approach to FOIA.”

Other lawsuits in which Justice’s civil division has expressed opposition to delays until the administration writes its FOIA guidelines and uses them to review Bush decisions:

? One seeking documents about the Automated Targeting System used by Customs officers to screen all travelers leaving or entering the country.

?A case seeking records of lobbying by telecommunications companies to get legal immunity for cooperating in warrantless domestic wiretapping.

? A case seeking Justice’s legal opinions justifying that wiretapping. One of the plaintiff attorneys, Meredith Fuchs, of the National Security Archive, a private group that publishes formerly classified government documents, said, “I’m somewhat surprised they did not take the opportunity to look at these again, but maybe it’s because the administration doesn’t have all its top Justice appointees in office yet.”

? Three cases seeking Justice legal opinions about detention and interrogation of terrorism detainees. Civil division attorney Caroline Wolverton wrote the ACLU’s Jaffer that Justice would proceed “consistent with the principles” in Obama’s FOIA order “and also with due regard for the legitimate confidentiality interests of the executive branch and the national security interests of the United States.”

Jaffer called that “a nonresponse response.”

So far, Justice has expressed willingness to review Bush decisions in two cases, only one because of FOIA changes.

Only in Sobel’s lawsuit for anti-counterfeiting treaty documents has Justice joined a plaintiff to obtain a court delay to give the administration time to write FOIA guidelines and use them to “review its determinations on the documents at issue.”

But that case is unusual because Justice is represented by its Office of Information and Privacy, not by the civil division handles which all the other FOIA lawsuits. The information and privacy office provides governmentwide guidance on how to obey the FOIA. Attorneys in these cases worry that the information and privacy office doesn’t have the clout of the much larger civil division and may not control administration policy.

The civil division has sought a delay to review one case ? involving three 2005 Justice legal memos on the definition of “cruel and unusual” interrogation tactics. But its request didn’t mention the new FOIA policy. Instead it said Obama’s Jan. 22 executive order on detention and interrogation might alter the government position.

Even if the new administration reviews Bush decisions, that’s no guarantee the outcome will change.

Last week, Attorney General Eric Holder announced a review of every court case in which the Bush administration used a different legal tool to preserve secrecy: the state secrets privilege it invoked a record number of times to have lawsuits thrown out. On the same day, however, civil division attorney Douglas Letter cited the state secrets privilege in asking a federal appeals court to uphold dismissal of a lawsuit accusing a Boeing Co. subsidiary of illegally helping the CIA fly suspected terrorists to allied foreign nations where they would be tortured.

Three times Letter assured the judges his position had been approved by Obama administration officials.

“This is not change,” said ACLU executive director Anthony Romero. “President Obama’s Justice Department has disappointingly reneged” on his promise to end “abuse of state secrets.”

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