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Wednesday, September 8, 2010





9th Circuit: The Government Can Kidnap and Torture You and Then Hide It Under State Secrets

The government can kidnap you and send you to be tortured, yet even if agents of the US government agents (CIA, private contractors) acknowledge what they were doing, if the government wants to call their own law-breaking a secret, the most liberal Circuit Court in the country agrees they can.

http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2010/09/08/9th-circuit-the-government-can-do-anything-to-you-and-hide-it-under-state-secrets/



To date, not a single victim of the Bush administration’s torture program has had his day in court. If today’s decision is allowed to stand, the United States will have closed its courtroom doors to torture victims while providing complete immunity to their torturers.


Obama has blocked all investigations and prosecutions into the Bush administration.

Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

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