On January 15, 2010, the US Department of Defense (DOD) released the names of prisoners held at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in September 2009. The list contained the names of 645 prisoners, but was heavily redacted to exclude much of the requested information pursuant to 5 U.S.C. § 552(b)(1-2) which allows the withholding of information if it is based on an executive order or details the internal practices of an agency. The ACLU information request was made in response to concerns that "Bagram has become the new Guantanamo except with