What If A Court Gave An Important Ruling, But We Were Not Allowed To Know What It Was?

from the sign-of-the-times dept

That Anonymous Coward alerts us to the news that DC federal appeals court has issued a ruling (pdf) in the case of Gitmo detainee Adnan Farhan Abd Al Latif, but the entire ruling is classified, so the public has no idea what it says. A ruling last year at the district court had ordered the administration to release Latif for lack of evidence that he had anything to do with Al Qaeda. And now... we have no idea what the government is ordered to do or not do. So what do we do in a time when the federal government gets to come up with secret interpretations of law and then can have court rulings on related issues entirely hidden from the public?

Filed Under: adnan farhan abd al latif, gitmo, government, guantanamo, secrecy, transparency