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Re: [privacy] U.S. 'State Secrets' Case May Get Airing
From: "Dennis Henderson" <hendomatic () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 18:55:08 -0500
War is hell. At least he still has his head on and even has a lawyer. On 10/8/07, Paul Ferguson <fergdawg () netzero net> wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via The Los Angeles Times. [snip] The Supreme Court is set to decide as early as Tuesday whether the government can invoke the doctrine of "state secrets" to quash a legal claim that CIA bungling resulted in a man being abducted, imprisoned and tortured. After five months of such treatment, CIA agents apparently realized that the man in custody, Khaled el-Masri, a German citizen of Lebanese descent, was not the wanted terrorist Khalid al-Masri. The case has attracted wide public attention in Europe, but El-Masri has been unable to gain a court hearing in the United States because the government has so far successfully invoked the argument that it cannot be taken to court when doing so might expose state secrets. [snip] More: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-secrets8oct08,1,277242 3.story Apparently, this issue is also getting visibility in the UK: http://media.guardian.co.uk/presspublishing/story/0,,2186457,00.html - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFHCoBiq1pz9mNUZTMRAr42AJ921i4Y7rhYyRagxY4JQqhlfCG1vgCcCX3E MeyYq9hIQ8tdG7MnRhKLxhY= =XD5U -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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Current thread:
- [privacy] U.S. 'State Secrets' Case May Get Airing Paul Ferguson (Oct 08)
- Re: [privacy] U.S. 'State Secrets' Case May Get Airing Dennis Henderson (Oct 08)
- Re: [privacy] U.S. 'State Secrets' Case May Get Airing Florian Weimer (Oct 11)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: [privacy] U.S. 'State Secrets' Case May Get Airing Paul Ferguson (Oct 08)
- Re: [privacy] U.S. 'State Secrets' Case May Get Airing Dennis Henderson (Oct 08)
- Re: [privacy] U.S. 'State Secrets' Case May Get Airing Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 09)
- Re: [privacy] U.S. 'State Secrets' Case May Get Airing Brian Loe (Oct 09)
- Re: [privacy] U.S. 'State Secrets' Case May Get Airing Dennis Henderson (Oct 08)
- Re: [privacy] U.S. 'State Secrets' Case May Get Airing Dennis Henderson (Oct 08)
- Re: [privacy] U.S. 'State Secrets' Case May Get Airing Paul Ferguson (Oct 08)
- Re: [privacy] U.S. 'State Secrets' Case May Get Airing Brian Loe (Oct 09)
- Re: [privacy] U.S. 'State Secrets' Case May Get Airing Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 09)
- Re: [privacy] U.S. 'State Secrets' Case May Get Airing Brian Loe (Oct 09)
- Re: [privacy] U.S. 'State Secrets' Case May Get Airing Drsolly (Oct 09)
- Re: [privacy] U.S. 'State Secrets' Case May Get Airing Brian Loe (Oct 09)