Even 40 years later CIA briefings to stay secret

[lovuian]

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN0444062320070904?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews


SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency may refuse to release documents from 40 years ago to the public to protect long-held secrets, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Tuesday.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the CIA did not have to give up the documents under the Freedom of Information Act aimed at opening up government activity to the public.

Larry Berman, a California political science professor, had sought two documents, one from 1965 and another from 1968, known as the President's Daily Brief (PDB), in which the CIA briefed then President Lyndon Johnson.
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this is BS

[defendandprotect]

1. CIA should be dismantled -- destroyed --- before it destroys us ---

[Octafish]

2. Gee. I wonder what was in those PDBs?

Especially considering that JFK wanted to keep us out of Vietnam.

From Bloomberg:

Berman sought a 1968 briefing from two days after Johnson announced he wouldn't seek re-election and a 1965 briefing from nine days after Johnson ordered 50,000 more troops to Vietnam.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aoVUcNUTRvJU&refer=home

[dailykoff]

5. I wonder whose "long-held secrets" these rulings "protect"

and what right they have to keep secrets from the electorate they supposedly serve?

[lovuian]

3. is it because Poppy is still alive as well as others

and it tells of a time where the truth was hidden and still is

[dailykoff]

4. Court rulings like that are totally unconstitutional.

So is the CIA, and that's our problem. We surrendered our rights to a gang of corporate thugs and now we wonder what happened to America.