Court deals blow to CIA drone secrecy

Josh Gerstein
Politico
March 15, 2013

For now, the Central Intelligence Agency can still maintain its official silence on whether it uses armed drones. But a new court decision Friday could force the agency to provide some information about what kind of records they have on the subject and spell out why it’s not required to say more about them.

In the first judicial blow to secrecy surrounding the Obama Administration’s armed drone program, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit unanimously rejected the CIA’s claim that it could refuse to confirm or deny whether it possesses any records related to drone strikes.

But whether the ruling will result in more drone-related documents actually being released to the public remains murky.

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This article was posted: Friday, March 15, 2013 at 2:49 pm

Tags: drones, terrorism

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