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President Donald Trump’s tweet about ending payments made to Syrian rebels was not an “official acknowledgement” of the existence of CIA records about those alleged payments, a federal appeals court in Washington ruled, reversing a district court’s order requiring the agency to confirm or deny whether it had such records.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s tweet about ending payments made to Syrian rebels was not an “official acknowledgement” of the existence of CIA records about those alleged payments, a federal appeals court in Washington ruled , reversing a district court’s order requiring the agency to confirm or deny whether it had such records.

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