Tuesday, December 27, 2011

The US national security smokescreen | Nancy Goldstein

5:41 AM | Posted by Free Game Zone | | Edit Post

The State Department response to FOIA requests from the ACLU to Wikileaks reveals the cables to the abuse of state secrets absurd

Ben Wizna, project director of litigation for the ACLU's national security, readily admits that his April 2011 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) for 23 of the same diplomatic cables from U. S. Department of State. UU. everyone to read this last year when the Wikileaks has published five newspapers, including The Guardian, was "flagrant" -. a way out of the hand of the "absurdity of the regime of secrecy in the U.S."

And it has. Nearly eight months after initial FOIA request, the State Department was finally released ... 11 cables. Federal censors have kindly written, so it is easy to see by a simple act of comparison (which the ACLU made by us here), specifically the sections of the State Department wants hidden. Missing are the dirty dozen cables that the government has refused to publish - in spite of the cables have already fled, published and discussed in virtually every major national and international, local media - again, because they were classified as secret or is deemed to contain sensitive information

administration officials broke a lot of hype and hysteria when the cables are first published. But it turned out that none of the information contained in the fact, U.S. citizens or allies in danger of informants. They did, however, be embarrassing for the United States and many foreign leaders. It turns out that the claims of national security were often an excuse to prevent us from seeing our government have engaged in unethical practices illegal, unconstitutional and, at times. These were extraordinary renditions, detentions and torture to pressure other governments in an attempt to influence political processes and to change their criminal justice systems.

We learned that the Obama administration itself had refused to prosecute perpetrators of torture by the Bush regime in the house had also tried to put their thumbs on the scales of justice Spain - aggressively trying to avoid an anti-terrorist judge to treat senior legal minds in the Bush administration for their involvement in the torture of detainees in Guantanamo.

  • learned about the attempt by the United States to sabotage the case of German citizen Khaled el-Masri, the greengrocer confused with a senior al-Qaida. He was kidnapped, tortured, drugged, beaten and thrown into the CIA in Afghanistan, the salt pit in prison, until - oops - they realized they had the wrong man and dumped him into the interior of Albania. In public, prosecutors in Munich issued arrest warrants against 13 suspected CIA agents involved in his abduction and torture, and the office of Angela Merkel called for an investigation. In private, the German Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Foreign Affairs made it clear to both the United States they were not interested in investigating the case, urging the United States for refusing to stop or to submit to agents.
  • If the first part of the agenda of the ACLU by calling the 23 cables that have already filtered, is to highlight what he calls a "penchant for excessive secrecy in violation of all right, "the second is to highlight how the Bush administration and abuse of state secrets privilege for Obama to keep illegal programs should be subject to judicial review.
  • When the ACLU challenged the CIA on behalf of Mr. el-Masri, in 2005, a judge dismissed the case. The U.S. government is not denying that it was removed by mistake. However, successfully argued that his case be dismissed because of their disputes could expose state secrets and endanger U.S. security. This despite the fact that, as al-Masri said that "President Bush told the world about the program of the CIA detention and although my complaints have been corroborated by eyewitnesses and other evidence."
  • first Bush administration and the Obama administration successfully evokes a state secret to prevent the ACLU filing a federal lawsuit against Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc., the people who helped victims CIA places interpretation steal secrets where they were arrested, tortured and interrogated. Once again, the government stated that the dispute would further undermine the interests of national security, even if most of the evidence necessary to prove the case was already publicly available. And yet, seems to have won.
In the hall of mirrors that the security system of the United States, information that is not officially recognized, can not be used to make government officials accountable to the courts. And an administration that can avoid accusations of misconduct, including torture, hiding behind claims of state secrets, even when all data are public knowledge, becomes the guardian of his own responsibility. This is bad news.
Transparency and accountability are
oxygen of democracy. However, do not hold your breath for this administration to meet the demands of one of them.


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