CIA Refuses To Release It's Drone Documents

CIA Admits It Has Drone Documents, But Refuses To Publish Them -- Verge

The US Central Intelligence Agency has finally come forward and admitted it does have documents about US drone strikes, but says it can't share them with the public because doing so would pose a massive security risk to the country. As the CIA stated in a document filed in federal district court in Washington, DC last week (and made public today): "The details of those records, including the number and nature of responsive documents, remain currently and properly classified facts exempt from disclosure."

The agency also spells out what would happen were it to reveal the documents, which many transparency advocates have sought:

Official CIA disclosure of such details would reveal sensitive national security information concerning intelligence activities, intelligence sources and methods, and the foreign activities of the United States. It would provide important insights into the CIA’s activities to terrorist organizations, foreign intelligence services, or other hostile groups, and could affect the foreign relations of the United States.

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