CIA Can Withhold Interrogation Documents, Appeals Court Rules

The Central Intelligence Agency can decline to turn over all documents related to the agency’s former detention and interrogation program, a three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Wednesday, reversing a lower court’s order for the CIA to produce the records.

In August 2015, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a Freedom of Information Act request for documents referenced in a Senate committee’s report of the CIA’s Detention and Interrogation Program, and alleged that the CIA tortured suspected terrorists in secret overseas prisons. Though the government released redacted versions of the report to the ...