Second Circuit finds post-9/11 congressional ‘torture’ report not subject to FOIA

By Nika Schoonover, Courthouse News Service, Aug. 5, 2024

A report produced by Congress on the CIA’s post-9/11 detention and interrogation program is not covered by the federal freedom of information law, a Second Circuit panel found Monday.

In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence generated a report on the Detention and Interrogation Program conducted by the CIA. The committee then transmitted the report to various agencies covered under the federal Freedom of Information Act.

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