State secrets privilege

maxwell · Feb 12, 2011

so: if someone wants to sue the United States Gov't for (X), a personal peeve of theirs. Fine. They want to haul something out in court, and that's what Democracy and Freedom, our free United States are all about. Right?

Hold everything. There is a law that comes from WHEN? A Holdover from the Monarchy of the United Kingdom? I just found out about this and I am all excited, and this coffee is too strong. Damn it's good. I'm gonna POP and stuff.

To be entertaining and informative: I learned about this from a WIRED article dated 2005:

"In a little-noticed opinion this month, a federal appeals court ruled against the Crater Coupler patent holders and upheld a sweeping interpretation of the controversial "state secrets privilege" -- an executive power handed down from the English throne under common law that lets the government effectively kill civil lawsuits deemed a threat to national security, even if the state is not a party to the suit."
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2005/09/68894
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so: even though being abducted by a grey alien (for example) and being molested, probed, mindwiped, whatever -- IF your government made a secret deal with said aliens -- then what they do to your cows or kids or you or whatever falls under the area of "state secrets privilege" -- so YOU CAN'T SUE THE GOV'T -- then, because "Ewige Blumenkraft!" which sucks, right?

does it suck? by the way, i have personally never witnessed any aliens in any way. i simply lack proof that such do not or can not exist, and know that the United States Government has LIED to people before (CF Richard M. Nixon. Try wikipedia or google...)

The state secrets privilege is an evidentiary rule created by United States legal precedent. Application of the privilege results in exclusion of evidence from a legal case affidavits submitted by the government stating that court proceedings might disclose sensitive information which might endanger national security.[1][2][3][4][5][6] United States v. Reynolds,[7] which involved military secrets, was the first case that saw formal recognition of the privilege.

Following a claim of "state secrets privilege", the court rarely conducts an in camera examination of the evidence to evaluate whether there is sufficient cause to support the use of this doctrine. This results in court rulings in which even the judge has not verified the veracity of the assertion.[1][3][5] The privileged material is completely removed from the litigation, and the court must determine how the unavailability of the privileged information affects the case.
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i suppose my QUESTION is --- does anyone here feel that above law applies to them personally in their paranormal investigations.

State secrets privilege

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