1.0 link 212921 <![CDATA[CIA urges judge to keep detainee papers secret]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/08/cia-urges-judge-to-keep-d_n_212921.html WASHINGTON &mdash; CIA Director Leon Panetta told a federal judge Monday that releasing documents about the agency's terror interrogations would gravely damage national security.

Panetta sent a 24-page missive to New York federal judge Alvin Hellerstein, arguing that release of agency cables describing tough interrogation methods used on al-Qaida suspects would tell the enemy far too much about U.S. counterterrorism work.

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