Court rejects alleged CIA kidnap victim

Court rejects alleged CIA kidnap victim

news.yahoo.com

The Supreme Court on Tuesday terminated a lawsuit from a man who claims he was abducted and tortured by the CIA, effectively endorsing Bush administration arguments that state secrets would be revealed if the case were allowed to proceed.

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what else is to say?
they just laid the smack down and said no suit is to be made..

is this new patriot act laws or what?
can't bring up suit....done and over

news.yahoo.com
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He claims that CIA agents stripped, beat, shackled, diapered, drugged and chained him to the floor of a plane for a flight to Afghanistan. He says he was held for four months in a CIA-run prison known as the "salt pit" in the Afghan capital of Kabul. The lawsuit sought damages of at least $75,000.

The U.S. government has neither confirmed nor denied el-Masri's account. But German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said that U.S. officials acknowledged that El-Masri's detention was a mistake.

^^^^^^^^^^^from the article.

so the suit can't be brought up cause 'secrets' will pop out.

so basically they CAN do whatever they want?


[edit on 9-10-2007 by Boondock78]

Just another example of the Executive branch trying to trump the Judicial branch...sigh. I thought Checks and Balances were there in order to keep the same sort of tyranny out of our government that befell so many other governments in the past...

From OP's Source Article
At the height of Cold War tensions between the United States and the former Soviet Union, U.S. presidents used the state secrets privilege six times from 1953 to 1976, according to OpenTheGovernment.org. Since 2001, it has been used 39 times, enabling the government to unilaterally withhold documents from the court system, the group said.

I think that about sums up this whole administration.

The sad part is, this wasn't even an American citizen (although the injustice served would still be outrageous). We yanked him out of another country, drugged and beat him, admitted we made a mistake, and then he was "dumped on a hilltop in Albania and told to walk down a path without looking back." Just plan sick.

-Warlo

well, these days the gov does what they want.
should we be suprised anymore?