“Our government’s sources and methods are not an open book,”

“Our government’s sources and methods are not an open book,”


So bloody true . So  sickeningly true.

It is time to  stop pretending that this behavior of the " leader of the free world"  is not  sick and evil.  A secret state that has to be protected at all cost is a dangerous state - for everyone. Especially  for  the state itself. A state that seems to be run by  sources and methods  that refuse to be an open book that any democracy should be expected to be.

Why pretend to have  have a Free  Press at all ??? Especially if Militaristic might and its needs are the order of the day. For all days to come.




The protective order requires the court to use a 40-second delay during court proceedings so that spectators, who watch behind sound-proof glass, can be prevented from hearing — from officials, lawyers or the defendants themselves — the still-classified details of the CIA’s rendition and detention program.
“What we are challenging is the censorship of the defendant’s testimony based on their personal knowledge of the government’s torture and detention of them,” said Hina Shamsi, an ACLU attorney who will be arguing against the protective order during the pretrial hearing at the U.S. base in Cuba.
The protective order, which is also being challenged by a coalition of media organizations that includes The Associated Press, is overly broad because it would “classify the defendants own knowledge, thoughts and experience,” Shamsi said in an interview.
“It’s a truly extraordinary and chilling proposal that the government is asking the court to accept,” she said.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/judge-in-sept-11-trial-at-guantanamo-asked-for-rules-that-would-shield-torture-testimony/2012/10/14/4b253814-165d-11e2-a346-f24efc680b8d_print.html