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From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 8:05 PM
Subject: re: Secrets Cited in White House Effort to Block Suit
To: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor:
From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 8:05 PM
Subject: re: Secrets Cited in White House Effort to Block Suit
To: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor:
The assertion of "State Secrets" has been advanced to quash many things since the Reynolds case; the courts have usually shown great deference. It is not however an absolute trump. When it is advanced to justify killing a U.S. citizen with neither a trial nor even criminal charges, any legitimate court must reject the argument. To acquiesce would be to concede that none of our Rights are in fact Rights, but that we enjoy them only when our absolute Executive doesn't object. That's not the system our president and judges have sworn to protect. That is not my America.
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