Bush Administration Nixes Another Lawsuit

Once again Bush and his band of criminals have used what is becoming their trump card, "State secrets". It has become their answer to anything and everything that might be illegal, but we'll never know because they keep throwing cases out and classifying documents.

(AP/Yahoo) A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit by a German man who said he was illegally detained and tortured in overseas prisons run by the CIA, ruling that a lawsuit would improperly expose state secrets.

Thursday's ruling by U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III makes no determination on the validity of the claims by Khaled al-Masri, who said he was kidnapped on New Year's Eve 2003 and detained for nearly five months before finally being dumped on an abandoned road in Albania.

The ruling hands a victory to the Bush administration, which intervened in the civil lawsuit to prevent exposure of its tactics in the war on terrorism.