Supreme Court won't hear Sept. 11 secrecy challenges

[Mandate My Ass]

Supreme Court won't hear Sept. 11 secrecy challenges

ANNE GEARAN

Associated Press


WASHINGTON - The Supreme court said Monday it will not hear a challenge to government secrecy in the case of a former waiter who may have served some of the Sept. 11 hijackers.

The court did not comment in turning down an appeal over public and media access to sealed court documents in the case, which has been prosecuted in near total secrecy.

Lawyers for Mohamed Kamel Bellahouel asked the justices to consider whether lower federal courts acted improperly in keeping the government's case against their client so secret that its mere existence was revealed only by accident.

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/8020559.htm

[mac2]

1. Cover up by the court

[lucky777]

2. Secret Cases -- what will I tell my students..?

I am a law professor. What can I tell my students about this nonsense? This is fascism -- secret cases, blacked-out files. The Constitution demands a public, speedy trial....

You don't respond to terrorism by becoming a fascist state -- that just proves how hollow our democracy is... ugh.

[saigon68]

3. Its kind of like Spain under Franco

Or Chile under Pinochet

[MostlyBlackCat2]

4. tell your students the truth

...that the united states, under Prince George II, became a fascist state with a propaganda machine rivaled only by that of Germany pre-WWII.

...that in spite of all they have been taught to believe, it is a republic, functioning as an aristocracy, and has been from the beginning.

Of course, if you do that you'll probably disappear in the night and not be heard from for a very long time - at least until the sheeple wake up and overthrow the regime....which looks like it will be a very long time.

suggest either a lobotomy, or buy really comfortable pajamas.

[Mandate My Ass]

5. I can't believe

they couldn't muster the necessary four votes to hear this.

The secret detention is half as odious as the USSC's apparent indifference to it.

[Zhade]

6. Cover-up Kick

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