Feds want rendition lawsuit dismissed

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Houston Chronicle/ Associated Press

Feb. 5, 2008, 7:20PM
Feds want rendition lawsuit dismissed


By PAUL ELIAS Associated Press Writer
© 2008 The Associated Press

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Bush administration lawyers cited national security concerns Tuesday in urging a federal judge to toss out a lawsuit accusing a Boeing Co. subsidiary of illegally helping the CIA secretly fly terrorism suspects to overseas prisons to be tortured.

The American Civil Liberties Union sued Jeppesen Dataplan Inc. last year in San Jose federal court, accusing it of aiding the CIA in the "forced disappearance, torture and inhumane treatment" of five suspected terrorists in violation of national and international laws. The ACLU alleges that Jeppesen, based in San Jose, knowingly participated in the program by supplying aircraft, crews and logistical support to the CIA flights.

On Tuesday, Justice Department lawyers asked U.S. District Judge James Ware to toss the lawsuit without further litigation because of unspecified national security risks.

In an earlier court filing, CIA Director Michael Hayden invoked the "state secrets privilege," which would let him bar evidence sensitive to national security from being used in court.



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[gateley]

1. You know if they actually PROVIDED national security rather than receiving

reports that our National Monuments have LESS security than they did before 9/11, or bomb making materials making it on to airplanes in a "test", then maybe they could hide behind that excuse. There IS no national security. Just a methodic chipping away of our rights and privacy, and the determination to get the oil in the Middle East.

Nice try, guys.

[truthisfreedom]

2. Hiding behind national security too many times, bushco. Judges are getting pissed.

I wouldn't be surprised if they're denied at every turn.

[InkAddict]

3. But our unitary executive needs no %$#@ judges

one can see how far that "investigation" on the firing of those Fed judges is going down. What, checks and balances? A lawful DOJ? It's that pesky Constitution thingee...and still no impeachment.

Don't judges/Speakers have family, friends, and beautiful horses(investments).I hear Godfather music..."Ve haf our ways!"

[meow2u3]

4. Translation into plain English

Bush Regime Demands Absolute License to Outsource Torture