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September 09, 2010

The Definitive Take on the State Secrets Ruling
Posted by Jacob Stokes

The New Yorker's Jane Mayer, who's been dogged on this issue, has the definitive take on yesterday's Ninth Circuit Federal Court of Appeals ruling that people who claim to be victims of rendition won't be heard in court:

But equally disturbing is the message that this verdict sends to individual American citizens, like the former Jeppesen employee, who felt a call to conscience that made him speak out, even at the risk to his own future employment, because he believed that secret kidnapping and torture were crimes in a country founded on the idea that all people, not just Americans, have inalienable rights, including protection from cruel and inhumane punishment. That his allegations could receive a public hearing in the press, but not a legitimate hearing in the American system of justice—even under an Administration headed by a former professor of constitutional law—is a daunting reflection of the clout wielded by the national-security bureaucracy in Washington, in the age of the Long War.

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