The CIA told a federal court on Monday that it would not turn over a slew of documents related to the George W. Bush administration's controversial detainee interrogation program.

Last week, the Justice Department released a redacted CIA report from 2004, and hundreds of pages of other records, that had been sought by the American Civil Liberties Union in Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation. That material fueled calls by Democrats and liberal activists for a full investigation of the interrogation program. 

But the administration on Monday told New York district judge Alvin K. Hellerstein that it would not hand over other records related to the interrogation program, which critics say amounted to torture.

The Justice Department filed a motion in the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals today asking the court to recall its mandate that the administration hand over dozens of photographs of detainees held in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The ACLU sought the pictures, which allegedly depict detainee abuse, in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. The administration initially agreed to comply with a 2nd Circuit order to turn over the photographs. But earlier this month, President Obama decided not to do so. On May 21, the Senate adopted an amendment to a fiscal 2009 supplemental spending measure that would exempt the photos from the FOIA law.

The government told the 2nd Circuit -- whose members include Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor -- that Solicitor General Elena Kagan has decided if that legislation is not enacted by June 9, the government will petition the Supreme Court to decide the case

Federal Judge Jay S. Bybee is facing pressure from members of Congress to resign or face possible impeachment for his role in the preparation of one of the interrogation memos released last week.

Bybee, who has been on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit since 2003, signed one of the four memos released last week in his previous capacity of head of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel.

He also signed another controversial August 2002 memo setting a high bar for what constitutes torture.

"If the White House and Mr. Bybee told the truth at the time of his nomination, he never would have been confirmed," Patrick J. Leahy, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Tuesday, according to CNN . "So actually, the honorable and decent thing for him to do now would be to resign. If he's an honorable and decent man, he will."