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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."
Please tell me you're kidding. Pissing on a holy book and wearing a leash while naked are not in the same league as having your head sawed off with a knife. Sheesh.
Now, the story under all this...is the guy actually a terrorist?
Everyone's talking like he's GOT to be innocent just because they redacted a summary that might have made our gov't look like "monsters". Well we are anyway but I don't necessarialy agree with assuming someone might be innocent when 5 out of the 20 people he tried to kill are still alive and holding him down for the police to arrive.
You can get rich if you own a politician, but you have to be rich to buy one in the first place.
You'll ignore my reply because you said something incredibly dumb and aren't man enough to own up?
I'll gladly ship you a 5 spot just to watch you eat your fucking words.
I only go to buffets for the unlimited soft serve.
Under Bush, this nation has sunk to new lows, but it started sinking long before he got into office.
And when would this mystical period in US history be when the US was supposedly doing better? The Reagan years? The Carter years? Nixon? JFK? Or the 19th century, with slavery and expansionary wars?
Or, for that matter, what other nation has been doing better? France? England? The holier-than-thou little European nations that got taken over a couple of times every century?
Politics is dirty and democracy is hard. But on the whole, the US is doing better than other nations, and on the whole, we are making progress.