http://www.highclearing.com/archives...15.html#004194
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The DC Court of Appeals has ruled 2-1 that the the government may withhold:
. . . the names and other details about hundreds of foreigners detained in the months after the Sept. 11 attacks, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. The powerful decision was deferential to the Bush administration's arguments over continued threats to America from terrorists.
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David B. Sentelle is quoted as writing in his majority opinion:
"America faces an enemy just as real as its former Cold War foes, with capabilities beyond the capacity of the judiciary to explore," wrote U.S. Circuit Judge David B. Sentelle. He said judges are "in an extremely poor position to second-guess the executive's judgment in this area of national security."
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...With its decision allowing the US government to engage in the practice of secret detentions, a federal appeals court has left citizen and non-citizen alike at the mercy of federal discretion.
Secret arrests obviously require arrestees. There is a term for these people, ready for use:
The Disappeared. Desaparecidos in the original, though we will likely want to learn the arabic term. (...The Mothers of the Plaza probably never dreamed that their group would one day be the model for American families coping with the US government's secret detentions of their loved ones. Keep this one handy.)
http://www.yendor.com/vanished/
http://www.yendor.com/vanished/madres.html
Are we becoming a 3rd world country complete with being "dissappeared", if deemed a threat? If we keep our mouths shut out of fear, how will our children ever knew how it used to be and can be in our beautiful country?
...Joyce in the mts.
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The DC Court of Appeals has ruled 2-1 that the the government may withhold:
. . . the names and other details about hundreds of foreigners detained in the months after the Sept. 11 attacks, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. The powerful decision was deferential to the Bush administration's arguments over continued threats to America from terrorists.
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David B. Sentelle is quoted as writing in his majority opinion:
"America faces an enemy just as real as its former Cold War foes, with capabilities beyond the capacity of the judiciary to explore," wrote U.S. Circuit Judge David B. Sentelle. He said judges are "in an extremely poor position to second-guess the executive's judgment in this area of national security."
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...With its decision allowing the US government to engage in the practice of secret detentions, a federal appeals court has left citizen and non-citizen alike at the mercy of federal discretion.
Secret arrests obviously require arrestees. There is a term for these people, ready for use:
The Disappeared. Desaparecidos in the original, though we will likely want to learn the arabic term. (...The Mothers of the Plaza probably never dreamed that their group would one day be the model for American families coping with the US government's secret detentions of their loved ones. Keep this one handy.)
http://www.yendor.com/vanished/
http://www.yendor.com/vanished/madres.html
Are we becoming a 3rd world country complete with being "dissappeared", if deemed a threat? If we keep our mouths shut out of fear, how will our children ever knew how it used to be and can be in our beautiful country?
...Joyce in the mts.
