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I followed the citation for "secret jail time". Fortunately, at least for that allegation, it appears to be speculation in another article [1]. [1]http://www.
by pcrh 13y ago
I followed the citation for "secret jail time". Fortunately, at least for that allegation, it appears to be speculation in another article [1].
[1]http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2013/06/nsa_surveillance_what_if_google_and_verizon_refused_to_hand_over_data.html http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/20...
- jteiiawer 13y agoThere were two links - http://www.rcfp.org/browse-media-law-resources/news-media-law/news-media-and-law-winter-2012/silencing-stories http://www.rcfp.org/browse-media-law-resources/news-media-la...
- pcrh 13y agoWhile I agree that the rights of the prisoner in the case you link to appear to be excessively curtailed , he was not "secretly imprisoned". Secret imprisonment would be a clear indication of totalitarianism, but doesn't, as far as we know, appear to be happening on US soil.
- Eliezer 13y agoFor heaven's sake, if Guantanamo isn't a clear indicator to you, I doubt that secret imprisonment, when it comes or when it's proved to you, will be taken as a clear indicator either.
- pcrh 13y agoThe people in Guantanamo are known to be there... albeit some of them shouldn't be.
- nitrogen 13y agoNow they're known to be there. But there were secret prisons in other countries where captives were held that were only revealed later: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_prison#Official_recognition_of_black_sites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_prison#Official_recogni...