British Cooperation, CIA’s Extraordinary Rendition Program

Member of British Parliament gets go-ahead to seek CIA documents via FOIA

June 17, 2014 - An appeals court has given the go-ahead to a member of the British Parliament who is trying to obtain CIA and other spy agency documents through the Freedom of Information Act.

The decision could mean more sunlight shed on possible British cooperation with the CIA’s controversial extraordinary rendition program.

In a unanimous decision Tuesday, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected Obama administration arguments that the British parliamentarian, Andrew Tyrie, was blocked from using FOIA. The CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies had denied the FOIA requests, citing an exemption in the law that precludes intelligence agencies from providing information to “a representative” of a foreign government. read more>>>