Reply #47: AP/NYTimes: ``This is about as close to a state secrets shutdown'' ...

[understandinglife]

.....of a case without the executive branch of government actually doing so, the judge said at a hearing."

Judge Questions Gov't Response to Detainee
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: February 12, 2005

Filed at 9:54 p.m. ET

"WASHINGTON (AP) -- Concerned about government secrecy in a terrorism case, a federal judge expressed skepticism Friday at the Bush administration's request to dismiss a lawsuit on behalf of a Virginia man held in Saudi Arabia.

The government is bolstering its effort to get the case thrown out by submitting classified information to U.S. District Judge John Bates that is unavailable to lawyers for imprisoned terrorist suspect Ahmed Abu Ali."

(more at link)

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Saudi-Detainee.html?



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