ACLU: Supremes must review Edmonds whistleblower case

[GoBlue]

NEW YORK -- The American Civil Liberties Union today urged the U.S. Supreme Court to review a lower court's dismissal of the case of Sibel Edmonds, a former FBI translator who was fired in retaliation for reporting security breaches and possible espionage within the Bureau. Lower courts dismissed the case when former Attorney General John Ashcroft invoked the rarely used "state secrets" privilege.

The Court created the so-called state secrets privilege more than 50 years ago but has not considered it since. The need for clarification of the doctrine is acute, the ACLU said, because the government is increasingly using the privilege to cover up its own wrongdoing and to keep legitimate cases out of court.

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http://rawstory.com/news/2005/ACLU_Supremes_must_review_Edmonds_whistleblower_0804.html

And please read the Vanity Fair article on Sibel et al: http://pogoblog.typepad.com/pogo/files/vanityfair_clean.pdf

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1. here comes the executive order declaring the ACLU a terrorist organization

I guess we can hope Bushler doesn't do it.

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2. Right on!

Didn't know that Sibel is REPRESENTED by the ACLU and that they are going to the Supreme Court next month. Their angle is misuse of the state secrets priviledge and supression of dissent in general.

Game on.

We've now got a race....will Plame issues, Sibel issues, Abu Ghraib issues, DSM issues really get hot before 2006 and before Bush leaves? Or is Bushco going to be able to run out the clock, finishing his term doing exactly what he wants?