Secret 9/11 case before high court

[acmavm]

http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1030/p01s02-usju.html

The justices consider a petition for a case with no public record.
By Warren Richey | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

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MIAMI – It's the case that doesn't exist. Even though two different federal courts have conducted hearings and issued rulings, there has been no public record of any action. No documents are available. No files. No lawyer is allowed to speak about it. Period.

Yet this seemingly phantom case does exist - and is now headed to the US Supreme Court in what could produce a significant test of a question as old as the Star Chamber, abolished in 17th-century England: How far should a policy of total secrecy extend into a system of justice?

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The entire dockets for this case and appeal, every entry on them, are maintained privately, under seal, unavailable to the public," says a partially censored 27-page petition asking the high court to hear the case. "In the court of appeals, not just the filed documents and docket sheet are sealed from public view, but also hidden is the essential fact that a legal proceeding exists."

Despite the heavy secrecy, a brief docketing error led to a newspaper report identifying MKB by name in March. The report said MKB is an Algerian waiter in south Florida who was detained by immigration authorities and questioned by the FBI.

MKB's legal status remains unclear, but it appears unlikely from court documents that he is connected in any way to terrorism. He has been free since March 2002 on a $10,000 bond.

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NOW, I'm really worried. Really worried. This is so incredible.

[DUreader]

1. WTF

[E_Zapata]

2. This is really ominous. really ominous. Did I say OMINOUS?

This is a little move by the fascists pigs that will blow up in our faces in one helluva big way.

This is all about Ashcroft and the Ridge Goons -- and they will get their little 5-strong decision in the S.Ct. and we won't know WHAT THE FUCK happened in this country for sures until maybe 30 years later, I assume.

SECRET cases before the friggin courts???????????????????????????????????????????????????

Outrageous.

[DUreader]

3. We'll never know how bad things have become until they come for us.

It is almost all-over

[jmcgowanjm]

4. Cliches are poor people's soliloquy

Evil always looks
strongest right before
it's taken down.

Nothing is more powerful
than an idea whose time has come.
When powers are comparable,
the intelligent prevail over the foolish.

We haven't got the Blood,
Treasure or Oil to extend this Empire.