Comments on: Appeals Court Reinstates Torture Case Previously Dismissed on ‘State Secrets’ Grounds

By: 1347281

1347281 — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:01:54 +0000

1347281 beers on the wall. sck was here

By: British Foreign Secretary: Clinton threatened to cut-off intelligence-sharing if torture evidence is disclosed - Salon.com

Sat, 21 May 2011 12:31:12 +0000

[...] to argue that the torture program which victimized him must be kept secret, and then after the Obama DOJ lost in the Ninth Circuit, trying to get that decision reversed by the full Circuit [...]

By: British Foreign Secretary: Clinton threatened to cut-off intelligence-sharing if torture evidence is disclosed

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:40:55 +0000

By: Obama Still Fighting to Cover Up Rendition-to-Torture « freedetainees.org

Obama Still Fighting to Cover Up Rendition-to-Torture « freedetainees.org — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:12:50 +0000

[...] torture victims won a big victory when a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit court of appeals reinstated their lawsuit against a Boeing subsidiary for allegedly flying them to other countries to be tortured under the [...]

By: British Foreign Secretary: Clinton threatened to cut-off intelligence-sharing if torture evidence is disclosed « Dr Nasir Khan

Sat, 01 Aug 2009 10:27:30 +0000

By: Hoisted from [someone else's] Comments | ???

Hoisted from [someone else's] Comments | ??? — Thu, 07 May 2009 05:36:10 +0000

[...] supported at the appeals level, given the repudiation of Bush called the 08 election. And one would assume correctly: The logic of the state secrets privilege, the appeals court panel writes (pdf), “simply cannot [...]

By: Stan Flatley

Stan Flatley — Fri, 01 May 2009 01:07:24 +0000

On the one hand, Obama's justice department argued the same "States secrets" doctrine that the Bush administration had. On the other hand, at his press conference, Obama seemed to back away from that. This site had an interesting piece about it http://tinyurl.com/ddgps8 but still I remain a little confused--and hopeful that Obama soon clarifies (and ultimately backs away from) his current stance on the states secrets" doctrine.

By: Stan Flatley

Stan Flatley — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:07:24 +0000

By: Good news: Appeals Court Reinstates Torture Case Previously Dismissed on ‘State Secrets’ Grounds « Later On

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:56:44 +0000

[...] in Bush Administration, Government, Law, Obama administration, Torture at 1:56 pm by LeisureGuy Daphne Eviatar in the Washington Independent: Despite the Obama administration’s surprisingly vigorous arguments that the case had to be [...]