The NY Times reports:
A German citizen who said he was kidnapped by the Central Intelligence Agency and tortured in a prison in Afghanistan lost his last chance to seek redress in court today when the Supreme Court declined to consider his case.
The justices’ refusal to take the case of Khaled el-Masri let stand a March 2 ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, in Richmond, Va. That court upheld a 2006 decision by a federal district judge, who dismissed Mr. Masri’s lawsuit on the grounds that trying the case could expose state secrets.
As I have said before, the biggest legacy of this White House will be the chilling effect it has had on civil liberties. If the state secrets in question have to do with the degree of torture that the US government has been a party to, shouldn't a free people know this?
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