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星期六， 2008年4月26日
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IPS | 美國。 中央情報局拒绝發表超過7,000個文件與秘密拘留、翻譯和酷刑有關它的節目和要求一位聯邦法官駁回信息訴訟過分要求的透露自由。

拒绝在對三個人權小組、國際特赦組織美國(AIUSA)，憲法給予的權利(CCR)中心和國際人權診所進行的訴訟的CIA的反應上星期來了在紐約大學法學院(NYU IHRC)。

CIA提交一個提議與法院為了一個總結意見能結束訴訟和避免移交超過7,000個文件與它的秘密「鬼魂」拘留和非凡翻譯節目有關。

CIA聲稱它沒有必須發表本文，因為許多包括書信與白宮或頂面喬治W。 布什政府官員，或者，因為他們在尋找法律建議在節目的黨之間，包括教導在某些審訊規程的合法。 CIA證實它請求-和接受-法律建議從律師在司法部法律顧問辦公室關於這些規程。

案件為一定數量的原因是重大的。 在他們之中，沃倫說CCR執行董事Vincent，它指示，第一次CIA 「承認它很好有與人酷刑和失蹤關連」的7,000個文件。

并且簡略的Goering， AIUSA資深代理執行董事，說， 「特定什麼我們已經知道布什政府官員寫的文件設法辯解酷刑和其他人權罪行，你不需要一個豐富想像力認為，拒绝的實據能透露這些文件比國家安全有更多做以避免犯罪活動透露」。

他拜訪CIA 「停止阻礙國會失察委員會和發表重要文件與秘密拘留、翻譯和酷刑有關節目」。

三人權組織法庭上將歸檔他們的反應摘要下個月。

小組歸檔了信息行動(FOIA)請求他們的自由上6月與幾美國。 政府機構，包括CIA。 這些請求尋找了關於的人的信息-或是-由美國拿著。 government or detained with U.S. involvement, and about whom there is no public record.

The requests also sought information about the government’s legal justifications for its secret detention and extraordinary rendition programme. Comprehensive information about the identities and locations of prisoners in CIA custody — as well as the conditions of their detention and the specific interrogation methods used against them — has never been publicly revealed.

Emi MacLean, a CCR attorney, told IPS, “The CIA has been running a programme of enforced disappearance and torture. What we are asking for is fundamental to a democratic society — some essential transparency and accountability. We need to know what is being done in our name. Indeed, the documents withheld by the government demonstrate that this basic accountability is what they have been worried about from the very beginning.”

“The CIA has employed illegal techniques such as torture, enforced disappearances, and extraordinary rendition,” said Meg Satterthwaite, director of the NYU IHRC. “It cannot use FOIA exemptions as a shield to hide its violations of U.S. and international law.”

In its legal filings, the CIA acknowledged that this programme “will continue”. Some prisoners have been transferred to prisons in other countries for proxy detention where they face the risk of torture and where they continue to be held secretly, without charge or trial. Human rights reports indicate that the fate and whereabouts of at least 30 people believed to have been held in secret U.S. custody remain unknown.

In September 2006, President Bush publicly acknowledged the existence of CIA-operated secret prisons. At the same time, 14 detainees from these facilities were transferred to Guantánamo and several more have arrived since. The administration has admitted to using so-called “alternative interrogation procedures” on those held in the CIA programme, including waterboarding. The international community and the United States, in other contexts, have unequivocally deemed these techniques torture.

One of the detainees of particular interest in this case is a CCR client, Majid Khan. Khan emigrated from his native Pakistan to the U.S. in 1996 and is a legal U.S. resident. On a trip to Pakistan to visit his wife, Khan was abducted by Pakistani officials and transferred to one of the CIA’s secret prisons. Among those transferred to Guantanamo Bay to be tried before a Military Commission, he was the first of the so-called “high value” detainees to have legal representation.

Congress has also been unable to obtain CIA records. The few documents released in the human rights groups’ lawsuit demonstrate a pattern of withholding information from Congress.

In a pointed 2003 bipartisan letter, then-Chair and Ranking Member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence requested that the then CIA Director George Tenet provide senior level briefings on the treatment of, and information obtained by, three men known to be held in secret CIA detention.” He told the CIA that their committee was “frustrated with the quality of the information” provided in past briefings.

The CIA appears to have avoided answering detailed requests for specific information, responding instead with form letters and references to briefings. In 2005, these practices led to a forceful letter from Michigan Democratic Senator Carl Levin, now the Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, who was attempting to investigate CIA involvement in detainee deaths. In his letter, Levin noted that “The lack of CIA cooperation with the investigations to date has left significant omissions in the record.”

The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1966. It allows for the full or partial disclosure of previously unreleased information and documents controlled by the U.S. Government. The Act defines agency records subject to disclosure, outlines mandatory disclosure procedures, but grants a number of exemptions to Federal agencies.

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