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There 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

• pcrh 13y ago
  While 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 ago
    For 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 ago
      The people in Guantanamo are known to be there... albeit some of them shouldn't be.
      • nitrogen 13y ago
        Now 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...