[privacy] U.S. 'State Secrets' Case May Get Airing

[Paul Ferguson]

-----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/