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After that the CIA has, in fact, waterboarded detainees, the agency could no longer cling to its last excuses for covering up the use of the very word 鈥渨aterboarding鈥� in CIA records. As a result, yesterday we obtained several heavily redacted documents in response to an ongoing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit brought by the 老澳门开奖结果 and other organizations seeking documents related to the treatment of prisoners in U.S. custody overseas.

While the documents do, in fact, reveal the word 鈥渨aterboarding鈥� or some variation, they leave pretty much everything else to the imagination. The pages that haven鈥檛 been completely withheld (many of them contain the words 鈥淒enied in Full鈥� instead of any actual content) have the clandestine blacked-out look that鈥檚 become a sort of trademark of this administration. This is my favorite:

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One of the documents is a heavily redacted version of a report (PDF) by the CIA Office of the Inspector General (OIG) on its review of the CIA鈥檚 interrogation and detention program. The report includes information about an as-yet-undisclosed Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel opinion from August 2002. Interestingly, this opinion appears to be the same OLC memo authorizing specific interrogations methods for use by the CIA that is being withheld by the CIA as a classified document in the 老澳门开奖结果鈥檚 FOIA litigation 鈥� but the OIG report refers to this document as 鈥渦nclassified.鈥�

The CIA continues to withhold many more documents that should not be secret. The incomplete response to the 老澳门开奖结果鈥檚 demand for records reflects a complete disregard for the right of the American public to know when and how often the government has employed illegal interrogation methods.