Cheers. Quite appropriate that this is posted in the torture thread as solitary confinement for extended periods is nothing but torture.

A tortured Libyan man's bid to sue the UK government for allegedly colluding in his rendition cannot be settled in a UK court, the High Court rules. The judge said Abdul-Hakim Belhaj had a "well-founded claim" but pursuing it would jeopardise national security.

[URL]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25464362[/URL]

[QUOTE=Nick;362553]A tortured Libyan man's bid to sue the UK government for allegedly colluding in his rendition cannot be settled in a UK court, the High Court rules. The judge said Abdul-Hakim Belhaj had a "well-founded claim" but pursuing it would jeopardise national security.[/QUOTE]

There's a bug in the code....

[url]http://www.opendemocracy.net/tom-engelhardt/washington's-wedding-album-from-hell[/url]

I wasn't able to view the link - saw it along with excerpts on another site - but websearch indicates it's the right one. Is anyone else here (un)able to view the page?

[QUOTE=ewmayer;362634][URL]http://www.opendemocracy.net/tom-engelhardt/washington's-wedding-album-from-hell[/URL]

I wasn't able to view the link - saw it along with excerpts on another site - but websearch indicates it's the right one. Is anyone else here (un)able to view the page?[/QUOTE]

Went to a "page not found" almost instantly, but then responded to links to different versions of the site. Unfortunately, it then put up an inarguable "Register" dialog, so I left.

[QUOTE=ewmayer;362634][url]http://www.opendemocracy.net/tom-engelhardt/washington's-wedding-album-from-hell[/url]

I wasn't able to view the link - saw it along with excerpts on another site - but websearch indicates it's the right one. Is anyone else here (un)able to view the page?[/QUOTE]
Are you talking about this article? I'm not sure what you are asking.
[URL="http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175787/tomgram%3A_engelhardt%2C_washington%27s_wedding_album_from_hell/"]Tomgram: Engelhardt, Washington's Wedding Album From Hell[/URL]
Posted by Tom Engelhardt at 8:24am, December 20, 2013.

[QUOTE=only_human;362641]Are you talking about this article? I'm not sure what you are asking.
[URL="http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175787/tomgram%3A_engelhardt%2C_washington%27s_wedding_album_from_hell/"]Tomgram: Engelhardt, Washington's Wedding Album From Hell[/URL]
Posted by Tom Engelhardt at 8:24am, December 20, 2013.[/QUOTE]

Thanks for pointing out the source. Tomgrams are often very insightful and informative articles.

[QUOTE=ewmayer;362634][url]http://www.opendemocracy.net/tom-engelhardt/washington's-wedding-album-from-hell[/url]

I wasn't able to view the link - saw it along with excerpts on another site - but websearch indicates it's the right one. Is anyone else here (un)able to view the page?[/QUOTE]Seems the apostrophe lost its original encoding somewhere along the way - this works:
[link]http://www.opendemocracy.net/tom-engelhardt/washington%E2%80%99s-wedding-album-from-hell[/link]
Still, may as well go to the source on tomdispatch.com.

[url=www.wired.com/threatlevel/2014/02/no-fly-coverup/]How Obama Officials Cried ‘Terrorism’ to Cover Up a Paperwork Error | Wired.com[/url]
[quote] After seven years of litigation, two trips to a federal appeals court and $3.8 million worth of lawyer time, the public has finally learned why a wheelchair-bound Stanford University scholar was cuffed, detained and denied a flight from San Francisco to Hawaii: FBI human error.

FBI agent Kevin Kelley was investigating Muslims in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2004 when he checked the wrong box on a terrorism form, erroneously placing Rahinah Ibrahim on the no-fly list.[/quote]
Note the initial mistake and early coverup occurred under Bush Jr., but Obama et al really doubled down on it. This is again symptomatic of the imperial presidency and post-9/11 natsec statism rather than party affiliation - the latter only matters, if at all, in the spin used to justify the state's crimes.

[url=www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/01/us-usa-cia-interrogations-idUSBREA300JJ20140401?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews]CIA misled public on interrogation program, newspaper reports[/url]

Re. the final para.: Methinks Miz Feinstein, who is perfectly OK with government mass-warrantless surveillance of the ordinary citizenry, doth protest overmuch.

[QUOTE=ewmayer;370120][URL="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/01/us-usa-cia-interrogations-idUSBREA300JJ20140401?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews"]CIA misled public on interrogation program, newspaper reports[/URL]

Re. the final para.: Methinks Miz Feinstein, who is perfectly OK with government mass-warrantless surveillance of the ordinary citizenry, doth protest overmuch.[/QUOTE]

DiFi has only become more disgusting over her career. She certainly sneered mightily and condescendingly at those who took issue with mass surveillance.