| CIA Withheld
Records About Interrogation Methods So
FOIA Case Now Stayed to Sept 28
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
July 29 –
A Freedom of Information Act
request for records withheld
about the Manchester Manual
and enhanced interrogation
methods gave rise to FOIA
litigation.
On June 29, U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York Judge
Jesse M. Furman held a
proceeding. Inner City Press
covered it.
After
disclose a possible conflict
that the two sides both
quickly waived, Judge Furman
asked about timing, noting
that the records had been
sought in connection with the
20th anniversary of the
9/11/01 attacks.
The
plaintiff's lawyer said there
was a June 30 soft deadline -
and Judge Furman said, you
will not be getting a decision
by then. But perhaps soon.
Now on July 29,
on a motion for a stay on
consent, Judge Furman in an
Order into the docket has
granted the motion while
stating, "The Court is
skeptical of the Government's
claim that it can present a
substantial case on the
merits. If the relevant
'decision' for purposes of the
deliberative process privilege
were the decision of what to
include in the final draft of
a document, it would mean that
every draft document was
covered by the privilege -
which is decidedly not the
law." The extension lasts only
until September 28, to produce
the Draft Intelligence Report.
In another
FOIA proceedings in SDNY also
covered
by Inner City Press, Judge
Engelmayer wished the parties,
including Raymond Bonner
working on the documentary,
luck in getting things "across
the goal line." Is time
running out?
The case is
Bonner v. Central Intelligence
Agency, et al., 19-cv-9762
(Furman)
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