10 October 2007

Supreme Court refuses to hold CIA accountable for kidnapping and torture

On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the case of a German man who claims that he was abducted and tortured by the CIA.

Why can Khaled el-Masri not have his day in court? Why should the CIA not be held accountable for their programs of extraordinary rendition, secret prisons, and torture? Because George W. Bush says that a trial would reveal state secrets.

State secrets like Bush's illegal policies in the "war on terror"?

We may never know. Because it's all a big secret.

Gotta wonder how much they are hiding. And why.

It is time to end the secrecy. We need transparency in government now more than ever.

Otherwise, the Bush administration will continue to engage in unlawful acts of kidnapping, torture, and whatever else they choose to do, and get away with it.

However, by refusing to hear the case and rule on the constitutionality of the issues, the Supreme Court has, by default, just told us that Bush's "state secrets" argument is legally appropriate. And that is perhaps the scariest part of it all.

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