Josh Gerstein reports that a Federal Judge has rejected ACLU’s effort to get the government to remove more of the redactions in the OPR Report on the torture memos. Judge Rosemary Collyer basically argued that the President’s need to get candid advice on how to make torture legal trumps citizens’ right to know about such illegal activity.
Judge: Government Can Shield Its Torture Conversations |
| By: emptywheel Tuesday February 15, 2011 7:05 am |


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