News organizations want to intervene in secretive Supreme Court terror case

AP ^ | January 3, 2003 | Gina Holland

[sarcasm]

WASHINGTON -- A coalition of journalism organizations and media companies asked the Supreme Court on Friday to let them join an appeal in a secret terror-related case.

The news groups are siding with an immigrant in Florida whose challenge to his detention after the Sept. 11 attacks was handled in secret. Lower courts sealed the filings by Mohamed Kamel Bellahouel and kept private the existence of the case.

[TaxPayer2000]

the term "3 ring circus" comes to mind

[Support Free Republic]

"Facts are stubborn things, and whatever may be our
wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions,
they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."
- John Adams -

Make your statement.

[clee1]

Gotta protect their ratings, don'tcha know.

What amendment is the "People's Right to Know" in?

Just because the "Press" is free to report, doesn't mean that the Government has to tell them diddily.

[patj]

“By participating in this case, the media aim to ensure that the proper balance is drawn between secrecy in the name of national security and the public’s right to know,”

Yeah right. By participating in this case, they get inside info that they can turn around and publish. What a transparent crock!