Judge dismisses suit over San Jose company's alleged CIA torture flights

[Newsjock]

Source: Associated Press

A federal judge today tossed out a lawsuit that accused a San Jose-based Boeing Co. subsidiary of illegally helping the CIA secretly fly terrorism suspects to overseas prisons to be tortured.

U.S. District Court Judge James Ware ruled that national security could be jeopardized if the lawsuit was allowed to go forward.

CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden had earlier invoked the government's so-called "state secrets privilege," which lets intelligence agencies bar the use of evidence in court cases that jeopardize national security.

In public and confidential statements filed with the court, Hayden urged the judge to dismiss the lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union against San Jose-based Jeppesen Dataplan Inc. because he said that covert operations overseas could be exposed.

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[Maccagirl]

1. Do a google on Judge James Ware

There's some VERY interesting info out there-Poppy Bush got him on the bench, and Clinton nominated him for the 9th District Court-despite his being caught in a lie regarding his brother's death. Ware claimed that his brother was shot by white supremacists on the same day as the Birmingham church bombings.

[Solly Mack]

2. isn't that kind of like blaming the cameras for Abu Ghraib?

(as Rumsfeld did)

The lawsuit won't jeopardize national security...the extraordinary rendition and torture jeopardized national security.

exposing the crime and the criminals isn't the problem...the crime itself is

Hiding crimes behind the wall of national security is cowardly...disgustingly craven.

And a government that would do such isn't much of a government at all.