{"id":8034,"date":"2010-09-09T10:51:35","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T18:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=8034"},"modified":"2010-09-09T10:51:50","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T18:51:50","slug":"911-legacy-usa-as-valhalla-for-torturers-govt-secrecy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/09\/911-legacy-usa-as-valhalla-for-torturers-govt-secrecy\/","title":{"rendered":"9\/11 Legacy: USA as Valhalla for Torturers &amp; Govt. Secrecy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ninth Circuit court of federal appeals embraced the Obama and Bush administration&#8217;s spurious arguments that Americans cannot be permitted to know the details of Bush-era torture.  But the court, in one of the most optimistic moments in recent judicial history, declared that its decision &#8220;does not preclude the government from honoring the fundamental principles of justice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the executive branch doesn&#8217;t have to honor any such principles &#8211; because the court permitted them to hide their crimes behind the doctrine of &#8220;state secrets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Amazingly, Judge  <strong>Alex Kozinski <\/strong>&#8211; often reputed to be the most libertarian-leaning appellate judge in America &#8211; cast the deciding vote in favor of immunity for torturers in the 6-5 decision. <\/p>\n<p>Glenn Greenwald has an excellent piece on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/opinion\/glenn_greenwald\/\"><strong>ruling<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ninth Circuit court of federal appeals embraced the Obama and Bush administration&#8217;s spurious arguments that Americans cannot be permitted to know the details of Bush-era torture. But the court, in one of the most optimistic moments in recent judicial history, declared that its decision &#8220;does not preclude the government from honoring the fundamental principles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-8034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8034"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8038,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8034\/revisions\/8038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8034"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}