A Second Shaming of America by the Supreme Court
October 9, 2007
Supreme Court Won’t Hear Torture Appeal
By DAVID STOUT
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 — A German citizen who said he was kidnapped by the Central Intelligence Agency and tortured in a prison in Afghanistan lost his last chance to seek redress in court today when the Supreme Court declined to consider his case.
The justices’ refusal to take the case of Khaled el-Masri let stand a March 2 ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, in Richmond, Va. That court upheld a 2006 decision by a federal district judge, who dismissed Mr. Masri’s lawsuit on the grounds that trying the case could expose state secrets.
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In 2000 the Supreme Court so shamed itself and America by seating an unelected George Bush in the Oval Office, that it refused to sign the decision.
Again today the court has turned its back on American standards of decency and fairness, this time not even daring to hear…