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

[Dennis Henderson]

War is hell.

At least he still has his head on and even has a lawyer.


On 10/8/07, Paul Ferguson <fergdawg at netzero.net> wrote:
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> Via The Los Angeles Times.
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> [snip]
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> 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
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