What do we do with a Secret?

[wolven7]

Oingo Boingo - [Winning Side]--- '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.

'But now the procedures have started to meet resistance. At a private meeting with the lawyers in one of the cases this month, the judges who will hear the first appeal next week expressed uneasiness about the procedures, said a lawyer who attended, Ann Beeson of the American Civil Liberties Union.

'Lawyers suing the government and some legal scholars say the procedures threaten the separation of powers, the adversary system and the lawyer-client privilege.'

And that's just for starters. Glad to read more people stepping up, about the level of secrecy, and lack of transparency. (kidneythieves - [Take a Train (Awakening)]). Thanks to wacko1138, for dropping me the link.

Comments

In-fucking-deedy

[karishi.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty pleased at the recent boldness of a lot of folk. Who knows what got our fire going under our butts, but I'm happy with it.

And I find it's generally quite efficacious to have a solid Adversary system.

Re: In-fucking-deedy

[wolven.livejournal.com]

It's the only way you know if your system is strong.