07-21-2010, 03:50 AM
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Ray McGovern: Judge allows CIA to suppress information on illegal activities
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A US federal judge has ruled that intelligence agencies may suppress information about torture tapes, memos and nearly any other intelligence gathering measures, even if they are illegal.
A US federal judge has ruled that intelligence agencies may suppress information about torture tapes, memos and nearly any other intelligence gathering measures, even if they are illegal.
“I’m not surprised,” said former CIA analyst Ray McGovern. “It distressing to see that happen but what surprises people these days.”
McGovern said he is unsure what type of justification a judge could have to make such a decision. He said it was “weird” that even illegal information can be suppressed.
“The essence of the situation is; information is being suppressed that shouldn’t be, people are getting away with things they shouldn’t be,” said McGovern.
Very few Americans are even informed on what goes on, unless information is leaked.
The justification cited to suppress information is typically national security, a justification which McGovern called weak.
“The executive can pretend that this would do harm to national security and judges are just usually not well informed enough to make their own decisions on that and so the inclination has been to give the benefit of the doubt to the government,” McGovern explained.
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