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Another month, and another Freedom of Information Act loss for The Associated Press before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Another month, and another Freedom of Information Act loss for The Associated Press before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit: On December 1, 2008, as I noted in this post from that morning, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that The AP has no right to access John Walker Lindh's petitions filed with the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Pardon Attorney seeking a reduction in his twenty-year prison sentence. You can access that decision at this link.

And today, the Second Circuit has reversed the ruling of a New York City-based federal district court that had ordered the Department of Defense to disclose identifying information of Guantanamo Bay detainees contained in DOD records documenting allegations of abuse by military personnel and by other detainees, and identifying information of family members contained in personal letters sent to two detainees and submitted by those detainees to Administrative Review Boards. You can access today's ruling at this link.

In early news coverage of today's ruling, The AP has a report headlined "US appeals court: Detainee IDs can be secret."

Full post as published by How Appealing on January 05, 2009 (boomark / email).