Saturday, November 04, 2006
Black is the new white, because we say so.
The Busheviks have wasted no time in trying to implement the recently passed " Torture Enabling Act" that includes the little known provision that says, in effect, you don't exist, we can do what we want and, if you survive, you can't even tell anyone what happened.
The Bush administration has told a federal judge that terrorism suspects held in secret CIA prisons should not be allowed to reveal details of the "alternative interrogation methods" that their captors used to get them to talk.The whole world knows we torture but first hand experience of torture is TOP SECRET. The damned Republicans have brought this country so low that government lawyers are fighting to protect the use of Stalinist methodology.
The government says in new court filings that those interrogation methods are now among the nation's most sensitive national security secrets and that their release -- even to the detainees' own attorneys -- "could reasonably be expected to cause extremely grave damage....
....Kathleen Blomquist, a Justice Department spokeswoman, said yesterday that details of the CIA program must be protected from disclosure. She said the lawyer's proposal for talking with Khan "is inadequate to protect unique and potentially highly classified information that is vital to our country's ability to fight terrorism."
Government lawyers also argue in court papers that detainees such as Khan previously held in CIA sites have no automatic right to speak to lawyers because the new Military Commissions Act, signed by President Bush last month, stripped them of access to U.S. courts. That law established separate military trials for terrorism suspects.
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