Reply #52: It's important that criminal prosecutions are not held back... Civil litigation can be stopped...

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... through "state secrets" privilege, which this administration has used HEAVILY to shut down civil litigation cases, which people like Sibel Edmonds, Maher Arar, etc. have discovered.

Different rules of evidence apply to criminal cases, which is why they couldn't "gray mail" Scooter Libby's case away from the courts since it was criminal. Of course the other remedy in his situation was to give him a pardon.