Drone Strikes: Court tells CIA to give information

The CIA had refused to confirm or deny any such records.


Our Correspondent March 16, 2013

WASHINGTON: The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has overturned an earlier judgment, saying the CIA must respond to requests on information on drone strikes.

In its ruling on the appeal filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) versus the CIA, the three-member bench said that ACLU had filed a Freedom of Information (FOIA) request for records held by the CIA pertaining to the use of drones.

The CIA had refused to confirm or deny any such records. The judgement by the appeals court said that it was implausible that the CIA does not possess a single document on the subject of drone strikes.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 16th, 2013. 

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