NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–May 21, 2012. A federal appeals court ruled today that the CIA does not have to release cables describing its use of waterboarding, or a photograph of a detainee, Abu Zubaydah, taken around the time that he was subjected to “enhanced interrogation techniques.” A three-judge panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, upholding the district court’s ruling, agreed with the agency’s argument that the cables do not have to be turned over in the American Civil Liberties Union’s Freedom of Information Act lawsuit because they relate to “intelligence methods.”
