In the bigger picture, it is clear that the ACLU‘s efforts to remove the veil of secrecy surrounding the government‘s targeted killing program are paying off. In March 2013, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals held that the CIA could no longer hide behind a so-called „Glomar“ response to information requests about targeted killing by refusing to confirm or deny whether it held records about the program. In that opinion, the D.C. Circuit ruled that the courts would no longer „give their imprimatur to a fiction of deniability that no reasonable person would regard as plausible.“ Today‘s opinion from the Second Circuit is cut from the same cloth, affirming the public‘s right to understand and evaluate the government‘s defense of its killing program for itself.