Published September 09, 2011| Associated Press
WASHINGTON - A federal judge Friday dismissed legal action sought by the Government information on reported unmanned drones use to kill the terrorism suspects.
The CIA refused the application of the Freedom of Information Act of the American Civil Liberties Union. The spy agency has refused to admit or deny that he had all the relevant documents and said that simply affirming that the existence of information would reveal classified information.
U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer rejected argument the ACLU former Director of the CIA Leon Panetta acknowledged officially of appeal of the Office of drones.
Media for years has detailed the use of drone aircraft in operations targeting the terrorism suspects in Pakistan, Afghanistan and elsewhere.
By supporting the disclosure, the ACLU cited response of the Panetta after a speech of 2009 to a question from a member of the public who said the strategy of the President of Pakistan has been "drone strikes." Without using the words himself, Panetta replied: "I believe that it is not to say that these operations were very effective, because they were very specific.
Contrary to the argument of the ACLU, the judge ruled, "these comments by Director Panetta did officially revealed the CIA involvement in the program of drone strike." Director Panetta spoke generally of his knowledge of "" clandestine and secret operations ' in Pakistan and its assessment that these operations have been accurate with minimal collateral damage. ""
The ACLU also cited a Washington Post story in 2010, based on an interview with Panetta, who said that the incessant attacks against al-Qaeda in the tribal region of Pakistan appeared to have pushed Osama bin laden and other top leaders deeper underground.
The history of the newspaper, said the judge, "appeared to speak to the joint efforts of military and non-military government agencies United States..." Director Panetta simply admitted that the CIA in Pakistan, left undefined, operations are more aggressive, ever undertaken by the CIA. »
By refusing to confirm or deny the existence of material, the Government has a legal defence of the era cold war known as the Glomar doctrine. Embodied by a decision of the Court Federal appeals of 1976, he allowed the spy agency to refuse to confirm or reverse its links for underwater recovery vessel, the Glomar Explorer. The ship, built by industrialist Howard Hughes, was used in an attempt to raise a Soviet submarine submerged.
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