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Admin to Judges: We Can Keep A Secret
From today's New York Times:
The Bush administration has employed extraordinary secrecy in defending the National Security Agency’s highly classified domestic surveillance program from civil lawsuits. Plaintiffs and judges’ clerks cannot see its secret filings. Judges have to make appointments to review them and are not allowed to keep copies.Judges have even been instructed to use computers provided by the Justice Department to compose their decisions.
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Comments (3)
MarchDancer wrote on January 26, 2007 4:32 PM:All of this secrecy serves only one purpose: to hide the malfeascance in office of all of BushCo, all of them. I cannot wait for Bush to be out of office. I pray for a true American citizen to be elected in 2008 and then for the truth to come out. We've never put a president in prison. Yet. Unlike his victims, however, Bush would receive a fair and impartial trial with all records open that are not truly secret, secret for the protection of all of us.
Unless Bush, Cheney, Gonzales, Rove, and all of their cohorts and underlings have destroyed those records they now regard as secret. A very likely possibility.
ohiomeister wrote on January 26, 2007 7:32 PM:These judges are so pathetic who accept this treatment. Get some spine and stand up for yourselves as a co-equal branch! You know, like it says in that little book you carry around, the Constitution?
Old Atlantic wrote on January 27, 2007 10:15 AM:There are close links between Deputy Assistant Attorney Generals, judges, law clerks, profs, etc. John Yoo is an example.
A speculative hypothesis that John Yoo passed info to the Supreme Court during Bush v. Gore about possible withholding of info by Clinton profs and Harvard from USAO Mass investigation that started in 1997 is a possible example of secrets that Bush is trying to keep under wraps. The link at my name has some discussion of how unitary executive theory may have played a role in this.
My security code is clean.