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> The transcript of a court proceeding is the historical record of that event, what will exist and inform the public long after the persons involved are gone. T
by philfreo 12y ago
> The transcript of a court proceeding is the historical record of that event, what will exist and inform the public long after the persons involved are gone. The government's attempt to change this history was unprecedented. We could find no example of where a court had granted such a remedy or even where such a request had been made. This was another example of the government's attempt to shroud in secrecy both its own actions, as well as the challenges to those actions.
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- grecy 12y agoThe article specifically pointed out the government wanted to make the change secretly, so that nobody would ever know it was done: when it was over, the government secretly, and surprisingly sought permission to “remove” classified information from the transcript, and even indicated that it wanted to do so secretly, so the public could never even know that they had done so. So if this has ever been done in the past, there is of course no record of it.
- CWuestefeld 12y agoThe government's attempt to change this history was unprecedented. We could find no example of where a court had granted such a remedy Of course, the very nature of such a change renders it undiscoverable. Who knows how many records have been changed and records of that change been expunged.
- indrax 12y agoThe fact that they said this, without pointing out that it was unknowable, makes me wonder if they know of another request that they can't talk about.