NEW YORK - September 28 - The American Civil Liberties Union will be in federal court in New York on Wednesday, September 30 for oral arguments in its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit for documents related to the treatment of prisoners in U.S. custody overseas.

The ACLU and its co-counsel will argue for the release of redacted portions of Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) memos describing "enhanced interrogation techniques" authorized for use by the CIA, as well as documents describing the contents of destroyed videotapes depicting CIA interrogations. The government has said it will continue to withhold the documents and portions of documents regarding the Bush administration's torture program despite extensive public knowledge of the program.

The ACLU will also argue for the declassification of three detainees' names that were redacted in the OLC memos.

WHAT:
Arguments in the ACLU FOIA lawsuit for documents related to the treatment of prisoners in U.S. custody overseas, including OLC memos on CIA "enhanced interrogation techniques" and documents related to the contents of destroyed CIA interrogation videotapes

WHO:
Jenny-Brooke Condon of Gibbons P.C. and Alex Abdo of the ACLU will argue for the release of the documents before U.S. District Court Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein of the Southern District of New York

WHEN:
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
3:00 p.m. EDT

WHERE:
Daniel Patrick Moynihan U.S. Courthouse
Courtroom 14D
500 Pearl St.
New York, NY

More information about the ACLU's FOIA litigation is at: www.aclu.org/accountability