U.S. wants Moussaoui case aviation security docs kept from 9/11 families

[DeepModem Mom]

U.S. seeks to keep evidence from 9/11 families
Prosecutors ask Moussaoui judge to reconsider order
From Phil Hirschkorn
CNN
Wednesday, April 26, 2006


Judge Leonie Brinkema granted 9/11 families access to documents used in the Zacarias Moussaoui case.

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (CNN) -- Prosecutors asked a judge to rethink granting 9/11 families suing airlines access to evidence gathered for the criminal case against al Qaeda terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui.

U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema's April 7 order requires prosecutors to provide copies of all unclassified aviation security documents to attorneys representing September 11 families in a civil lawsuit pending in New York.

Prosecutors called the order "unprecedented" and urged Brinkema to withdraw it. The motion was filed by Chuck Rosenberg, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Brinkema's order would allow the families' attorneys access to "highly sensitive" law enforcement documents and could compromise the continuing investigation into the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The inquiry is "the largest criminal investigation in our nation's history, which is still ongoing," the motion says....

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In their motion, prosecutors argued that the aviation security documents are specially selected materials provided to a small group of attorneys cleared to handle sensitive evidence in the Moussaoui case....

http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/04/26/moussaoui.aviation/index.html

[mike_c]

1. hmmm-- secret evidence, huh...?

This is the kind of thing we were told about to demonize the Soviet Union back in the cold war days-- detention without charge, secret trials, secret evidence, and so on.