Friday, November 16, 2007

Petition for redress

So, another right bites the dust. You can no longer sue the government even with physical evidence of its acts if only the government says that your evidence reveals a state secret - even if that government has previously revealed related "state secrets" and the government sent the now-suppressed evidence to you.

Oh, I suppose that the appeals court - a panel from the Ninth Circuit, now defanged I guess - could hold differently in the divided cases brought by Americans, uh, non-Muslims. Don't bet on it, though.

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