Tuesday, August 16, 2005

If you're one of the dumb, don't you WANT to know how freaky the Freaky McFreaksters you voted for are? The kind of inhuman shite you voted to unleash on the world? C'mon own it. If you voted for Bush you wanted torture. It's that simple. :

Judge rules in favor of holding public hearings on detainee abuse

Following the latest round of filings by the Department of Defense in conjunction with the State Department -which attempts to stipulate that all current and future photographs and tapes of detainee abuse be permanently sealed and, in addition, the reasons given for the motion be heavily redacted - the court ruled largely in favor of public disclosure.
The government's most recent motion was filed several weeks back when it missed its deadline for the release of all documents pursuant to the ACLU's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) suit, which has forced the release of over 60 thousand documents thus far in relation to detainee abuse and torture.

Sealing the reason for the seal


The question argued yesterday is not whether the photographs and tapes are to be made public, but whether the government's arguments against making the documents public are to be made public, filed as a declaration jointly by the DOD, represented by General Richard B. Myers, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the State Department, represented Ronald L. Schlicher - Deputy Asst. Secretary of the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs at an earlier hearing.
Reminiscent of much of State Department's recent attempts at interpreting the law, for example using the States Secret gag order against a whistleblower - a law that had only been used once before in its 50 year history, the DOD and State Department are once again attempting to seal the reasons themselves for sealing documents... http://tinyurl.com/8y36x

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