The very last item in the Vaughn Index the CIA submitted to Judge Hellerstein in an attempt to keep all this information secret is a photograph of Abu Zubaydah dated October 11, 2002.
A photograph.
We can’t have that either, the CIA says, because it’ll expose sources and methods. More specifically, they say we can’t have it because of:
Exemption b(1) – This document contains information relating to intelligence activities (including special activities), intelligence sources, intelligence methods, and foreign relations or foreign activities of the United States, including confidential sources that is properly classified pursuant to section 1.4(c) and 1.4(d) of Executive Order 12958, as amended, and is thus protected from disclosure by Exemption b(1).
Exemption b(3) – This document contains information relating to intelligence sources and intelligence methods that is specifically exempted from disclosure by section 102A(i)(1) of the National Security Act of 1947, as amended, 50 USCA 403-1(i)(1) (West Supp. 2008) and section 6 of the Central Intelligence Act of 1949, as amended, 50 USCA 403g (West Supp. 2008), and thus is protected from disclosure by Exemption b(3). This document also contains information relating to the organization, functions, and names of persons employed by the CIA that is specifically exempted from disclosure by section 6 of the Central Intelligence Act of 1949, as amended, 50 USCA 403g (West Supp. 2008), and thus is protected from disclosure by Exemption b(3).
A picture, apparently taken two months after the waterboarding, and they won’t release it because, they say, it’ll reveal sources and methods.
What was apparent in a photo of Abu Zubaydah from October 2002 that it would reveal sources and methods?