FBI Coerced Confession Deemed "Classified"

Steve Bergstein is one of several who have blogged about a recent court ruling that reads like most any bestselling crime novel. Apparently, when the court originally posted their decision (complete with backstory) it detailed how a coerced confession was obtained by the FBI from Abdallah Higazy in relation to the 9/11 attacks. The details, however, were later removed and deemed "classified". "As I read the opinion I realized it was a 44 page epic, too long for me to print out. I blogged about the opinion while I read it online and then posted the blog as I ate lunch. Then something strange happened: a few minutes after I posted the blog, the opinion vanished from the Court of Appeals website! [...] The next day, the Court of Appeals reissued the Higazy opinion. With a redaction. The court simply omitted from the revised decision facts about how the FBI agent extracted the false confession from Higazy. For some reason, this information is classified."

Comments

Re:Ha!

[WED Fan]

Yes and some dipwad with mod points blew his modding wad on moderating an AC. Waste.

Re:Intentionally allowing the bad guys to go free.

[Estanislao Mart�nez]

Imagine that every time a woman was raped, the police chose from a hat and arrested and tried a random person.

Yeah, and imagine they always picked a black guy, and then always judged and executed him the same day, in front of a cheering crowd who would somewhat prefer lynching him, but is OK with the proceedings as they are.

Would that make your wife safer on the streets alone at night? Having a random guy in jail while the real rapist is still out on the hunt?

Ground control to clambake: rape by strangers in dark alleys at night only accounts for a minority of rapes. Most rape is acquaintance rape. Please stop using the dark alley scenario as the stereotypical, representative rape case; it perpetuates the myth that "nice" guys don't rape, a myth that's very convenient for said "nice" guys.

Re:In Defense of Bush (sorta)

[OverlordQ]

Uh oh, a rational semi-positive thought about Bush that hasn't been downmodded to death. I wonder if it's too late to buy "Hell-Freezing Over" Insurance.

Scrapbook Firefox Add-on

[Insightfill]

Scrapbook is a neat one that you can install for Firefox to keep a record of every page you visit (on your computer). If you visit a web page and discover that it's different at a later time, you can browse Scrapbook for the old version of the page. The bonus is that it seems to keep the page format and structure intact.

Re:In Defense of Bush (sorta)

[afabbro]

Instead, what the left wing is arguing for is a banana republic type of government

If the left ever gained absolute power in this country, we'd all be in concentration camps, guarded by soldiers wearing armbands with peace insignias, with Joan Baez droning 24x7 from the public address.