Court Nixes Appeal Over 9-11 Detentions

[joeunderdog]

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court refused Monday to consider whether the government properly withheld names and other details about hundreds of foreigners detained in the weeks and months after the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

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Most of the more than 700 detainees at issue in the case have since been deported. Some picked up after Sept. 11 were charged with crimes, and others were held as material witnesses. Only Zacarias Moussaoui, who was detained before the Sept. 11 attacks, is being prosecuted in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks.


A Washington study center critical of the Bush administration responses after Sept. 11 sued to learn names and other basic information about the detainees. The appeal raises constitutional questions under the First Amendment right to freedom of speech and freedom of the press, and legal questions under the federal Freedom of Information Act.


"The Justice Department (news - web sites) is keeping the names secret to cover up its misconduct," said Kate Martin, director of the Center for National Security Studies.


"The Justice Department is keeping them secret to cover up the fact that they rounded up innocent Arabs and Muslims instead of suspected terrorists."


Twenty-three news organizations and media groups, including The Associated Press, joined in asking the high court to hear the case.

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[aquart]

1. SCum.

[PATRICK]

2. need any more signs?

Any rollback or release of information of Bush crimes will signal their defeat. That is one line the SCOTUS will not cross, showing further signs of being a specifically partisan agenda. The Gay marriage thing was of no consequence except to stir up flame issues against Democrats. No contrition or retreat here. Only O'Connor is concerned people might later spit on her grave, so she tosses a few useless crumbs she know a later Bush court, one she is protecting, will trash anyway.

[bahrbearian]

3. Was that the decision of the entire Court or just Rheinquist.