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The Associated Press

Published: June 20, 2009

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration is delaying by a week its release of an internal CIA report on the agency's Bush-era secret detention and interrogation program.

The 150-page report was expected to be released Friday.

The American Civil Liberties Union, which filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit for the release of all documents relating to the CIA's interrogation program, said it was disappointed by the delay.

The legal organization has been waiting for the release of a less-censored version of the report for more than a year. In the version released in May 2008, all but a few paragraphs and individual words were blacked out.

The review by the inspector general for the CIA was completed in May 2004.

John L. Helgerson, the now-retired CIA inspector who spearheaded the investigation, said a large portion of the report addresses CIA activities, sources and methods that should remain classified.

The review cast doubt on the effectiveness of the harsh interrogation methods employed by CIA, according to references to the report contained in a slew of Bush-era Justice Department memos declassified this spring by the Justice Department.

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