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Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Wed, Mar 5, 2003 4:45 PM
(In the founding case in which the government
claimed and established "National Defense"
as
grounds for concealing evidence. It has been
used as precedent hundreds of times since.)
http://tinyurl.com/6xfr
Relatives of three civilians killed when an Air
Force bomber crashed in Georgia in 1948 have
asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reopen their
civil suit against the government, which
collapsed after the court issued a landmark
ruling on secrecy and national security.
In an unusual petition filed Wednesday, the
families said the government falsely told the
court a half-century ago that accident reports
on the crash contained classified information
that, if disclosed, would reveal important
military secrets.
In the 1953 case, United States v. Reynolds,
the Supreme Court held that the government
could withhold the records -- even from a
federal judge -- if national security was at
stake.
Since then, the decision has been cited
repeatedly in government secrecy cases,
including the Supreme Court's 1974 Watergate
ruling ordering President Nixon to turn over
his White House audio tapes.
But family members said that when the original
reports on the 1948 crash were finally
declassified in the 1990s, they didn't
contain any sensitive information.
"There was never a military secret, and there
was never any national security issue at stake,"
said Wilson Brown, an attorney with the
Philadelphia law firm Drinker, Biddle & Reath,
which has represented the families since the
1950s...
--
Unless there is some reason for investigation,
the federal law and the Constitution still
protect the rights of citizens.
--FBI agent Greg Stejskal
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