Subject: America No Longer Has a Functioning Judicial System
It's like we are living in a dystopic novel of some
future dictatorship as it unfolds chapter by chapter. Unfortunately
it is not fiction. ~Basil
The Department of Justice told a federal court this week that
the NSA’s spying “cannot be challenged
in a court of law”.
(This is especially dramatic given that numerous federal judges
and legal scholars – including a former FISA judge – say that the FISA spying
“court” is nothing but a kangaroo court.)
Also this week, the Department of Justice told a federal court
that the courts cannot review the legality of the
government’s assassination by drone of Americans abroad:
“‘Are you saying that a US citizen targeted by the United States in a foreign country has no constitutional rights?’ [the judge] asked Brian Hauck, a deputy assistant attorney general. ‘How broadly are you asserting the right of the United States to target an American citizen? Where is the limit to this?’“She provided her own answer: ‘The limit is the courthouse door’ . . . .“‘Mr. Hauck acknowledged that Americans targeted overseas do have rights, but he said they could not be enforced in court either before or after the Americans were killed.’”
(Indeed, the Obama administration has previously claimed the
power to be judge, jury and executioner in both drone
and cyber-attacks. This violates Anglo-Saxon laws which have been on the
books in England and America for 800 years.)
The Executive Branch also presents “secret evidence” in many
court cases … sometimes even hiding the evidence from the judge who is deciding the case. ...<snip>...
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