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 programme.
The roughly 150-page report was expected to be released on Friday, but a CIA spokesman said government officials still were poring over the documents.
"We continue to review the document to see what additional material can be released in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act," said CIA spokesman George Little.
The American Civil Liberties Union, which filed a FOIA lawsuit for the release of all documents relating to the CIA's interrogation programme, said it was disappointed by the delay.
The legal organisation has been waiting for 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.
"We can only hope that this delay is a sign that the forces of transparency within the Obama administration are winning over the forces of secrecy and that the report will ultimately be released with minimal redactions," ACLU attorney Amrit Singh said in a statement on Friday.
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