It's time the courts stopped allowing the CIA to remain unaccountable

if you've followed the el-masri story, you will remember the circumstances surrounding his kidnapping and extraordinary rendition... put yourself in his shoes... i can... having lived in macedonia for months at a time over the interval of the past four years, i can easily not only imagine it, i can visualize the very area because i've been there... at the time of his apprehension, i was spending the holidays in the states, but returned little more than a month after he was snatched, a case study in six degrees of separation...

A German citizen who says he was kidnapped and abused by the Central Intelligence Agency cannot seek redress in court because his lawsuit would expose state secrets, a United States Court of Appeals ruled yesterday in Richmond, Va.

There is substantial evidence that the plaintiff in the suit, Khaled el-Masri, a German citizen of Lebanese descent, was subjected to the C.I.A.’s practice of extraordinary rendition, in which terrorism suspects are seized and sent for interrogation to other countries.

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Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the A.C.L.U., said that the court’s decision had been “truly unbelievable” and that his group was “very seriously looking at all the avenues before us” for an appeal to the full appeals court or to the United States Supreme Court.

“Actions like this are reminiscent of third world countries,” Mr. Romero said. “It’s just not tenable to have the C.I.A. unaccountable for its most egregious violations of human rights.”

again, put yourself in his shoes... wouldn't you be crying out for justice, or even mere acknowledgment of who did what...? our government has been so unaccountable for so long and the courts are so inured to it, justice has ceased to be an operative word in our "justice" system...

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