Secrecy Allowed On 9/11 Detention
So, does anyone else have any problem with this? People were detained, nobody knows who they were, and our formerly open society can't get the information, when we can get the arrest records on just about anyone else. How come?
The Supreme Court yesterday declined to hear an appeal by civil liberties groups seeking access to basic data about hundreds of individuals detained by the federal government after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, a decision that allows officials to continue withholding the names of most detainees, as well as other information related to their arrests, indefinitely. [Washington Post: Front Page]