WikiLeaks: At Least 109,000 Killed During Iraq War

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wikleaks-dumps-thousands-classified-military-documents/story?id=11949670

A little more "war" heat.

The whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks today released a trove of classified reports that it said documented at least 109,000 deaths in the Iraq war, more than the United States previously has acknowledged, as well as what it described as cases of torture and other abuses by Iraqi and coalition forces.

Judge Rules CIA Can Withhold Info about Illegal Methods

http://www.allgov.com/Top_Stories/ViewNews/Judge_Rules_CIA_Can_Withhold_Info_about_Illegal_Methods_100726

So the CIA can now do what it wants to who it wants without question.
This was a very dangerous precedent to set considering what the definition of terrorism now is in the United States.

A federal judge has backed CIA efforts to conceal information about treatment of detainees, even if the suppressed records contain details about illegal activity on the part of the intelligence agency.


U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein ruled that he was unwilling to “second-guess the CIA Director regarding the appropriateness of any particular intelligence source or method,” while rejecting the American Civil Liberties Union’s request to obtain records related to the treatment of detainees, those who died in U.S. custody and the names of anyone kidnapped and sent to secret prisons.