A federal judge has ruled that John Yoo,
a former Bush administration lawyer who wrote crucial memorandums
justifying harsh interrogation techniques, will have to answer in court
to accusations that his work led to a prisoner's being tortured and
deprived of his constitutional rights. The government had asked Judge
Jeffrey S. White of Federal District Court in San Francisco to dismiss
the case filed by Jose Padilla,
an American citizen who spent more than three years in a military brig
as an enemy combatant. Judge White denied most elements of Mr. Yoo's
motion and quoted a passage from the Federalist Papers that in times of
war, nations, to be more safe, "at length become willing to run the
risk of being less free."
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Meanwhile in a second case in the 9th Circuit Court, the Obama administration has increased its defense of secrecy surrounding an alleged CIA program of torture flight, http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/13/BAD5186LUA.DTL .
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Meanwhile in a second case in the 9th Circuit Court, the Obama administration has increased its defense of secrecy surrounding an alleged CIA program of torture flight, http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/
