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Trotz des Obama Anrufs für geöffnete Regierung, widersteht Gerechtigkeit, Bush Geheimnisse freizugeben
Montag, den 16. Februar 2009
WASHINGTON (AP)? Trotz des Präsidenten Obama' s schwören, um Regierung mehr zu öffnen, als überhaupt, die Gerechtigkeit-Abteilung Bush Leitung Entscheidungen verteidigt, um Geheimnis zu halten viele Dokumente über inländischen Wiretapping, Datenerfassung auf Reisenden und US Bürger und Befragung der vermuteten Terroristen. Im ein halbes Dutzend Prozeß, haben Gerechtigkeitrechtsanwälte formalen Bewegungen entgegengesetzt, oder verschmähte außergerichtliche Angebote zu verzögert gerichtliche Klage bis die neue Leitung Neufassungen Freiheit der Informationen Tat Richtlinien und entscheidet, ob die neuen Richtlinien der öffentlichkeit erlauben konnten, mehr zu sehen. In nur einem Fall läßt die Gerechtigkeit-Abteilung vereinbaren, um einen FOIA Prozeß bis die diskutierten Dokumente zu verschieben kann unter den schon-zu-sein-geschriebenen Richtlinien neu bewertet werden. Dieser Fall bezieht Vermittlungen auf einem Anti-fälschenden Vertrag, nicht die umstritteneren, geheimeren Anti-terrorismus Taktiken mit ein, die die anderen Prozesse sowie Versprechungen Obamas der grösseren Offenheit laichten. „Die Zeichen an den letzten Tagen nicht völlig regen,“ an, sagte Jameel Jaffer, ein Rechtsanwalt für Amerikanischer Zivilfreiheit-Anschluß, das einige Prozesse einordnete, welche die zugelassenen rationales der Bush Leitung für warrantless inländischen Wiretapping und für seine Behandlung der Terrorismus-Häftlinge suchen. Gruppen, die geöffnete Regierung, Zivilfreiheiten und Privatleben befürworten, waren overjoyed, daß Obama an seinem ersten Tag im Büro die FOIA Politik aufhob, die Bushs vom ersten Attorney General auferlegt wurde, John Ashcroft. Die Bush Gerechtigkeit-Abteilung sagte, daß sie jede gesetzmaßige Gesetzesgrundlage verwenden würde, um zurückhaltene Aufzeichnungen von der öffentlichkeit zu verteidigen. Obama versprach „ein beispielloses Niveau der Offenheit in der Regierung“ und bestellte die neuen FOIA Richtlinien, die geschrieben wurden mit einer „Vermutung zugunsten der Freigabe.“ Aber Tätigkeiten der Gerechtigkeit in den Gerichten seit damals haben Zweifel geworfen auf, wie weit die neue Leitung geht. In einem suchenden Zugang des FOIA Falles zur Richtlinien Regelung FBI' s Untersuchungsdaten-Lager? eine Computerdatenbank, die 1 Milliarde auffindbare Dokumente über Amerikaner und Ausländer enthält? Gerechtigkeit, die Rechtsanwälte ein Amtsgericht hier Donnerstag, „es erklärten, ist nicht klar, daß die neuen Richtlinien, sobald herausgegeben, zu FOIA verlangt zurückblickend seien Sie, daß die Agentur bereits hat beendet die Verarbeitung.“ Sie baten um um das Gericht, um anstatt anzuordnen, daß das FBI genug getan hat. The bureau has reviewed 878 pages, withheld 76 and released some portions of 802. To withhold some material, the FBI cited discretionary FOIA exemptions and ones that require balancing privacy and public interests. David Sobel, attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco-based group that advocates civil liberties in cyberspace and brought the lawsuit, said those decisions might come out differently under the new guidelines. The issue isn’t retroactivity, Sobel said. “The issue is whether the new administration is going to devote legal resources to fighting old battles now that the president has announced a fundamental change in the government’s approach to FOIA.” Other lawsuits in which Justice’s civil division has expressed opposition to delays until the administration writes its FOIA guidelines and uses them to review Bush decisions: ? One seeking documents about the Automated Targeting System used by Customs officers to screen all travelers leaving or entering the country. ?A case seeking records of lobbying by telecommunications companies to get legal immunity for cooperating in warrantless domestic wiretapping. ? A case seeking Justice’s legal opinions justifying that wiretapping. One of the plaintiff attorneys, Meredith Fuchs, of the National Security Archive, a private group that publishes formerly classified government documents, said, “I’m somewhat surprised they did not take the opportunity to look at these again, but maybe it’s because the administration doesn’t have all its top Justice appointees in office yet.” ? Three cases seeking Justice legal opinions about detention and interrogation of terrorism detainees. Civil division attorney Caroline Wolverton wrote the ACLU’s Jaffer that Justice would proceed “consistent with the principles” in Obama’s FOIA order “and also with due regard for the legitimate confidentiality interests of the executive branch and the national security interests of the United States.” Jaffer called that “a nonresponse response.” So far, Justice has expressed willingness to review Bush decisions in two cases, only one because of FOIA changes. Only in Sobel’s lawsuit for anti-counterfeiting treaty documents has Justice joined a plaintiff to obtain a court delay to give the administration time to write FOIA guidelines and use them to “review its determinations on the documents at issue.” But that case is unusual because Justice is represented by its Office of Information and Privacy, not by the civil division handles which all the other FOIA lawsuits. The information and privacy office provides governmentwide guidance on how to obey the FOIA. Attorneys in these cases worry that the information and privacy office doesn’t have the clout of the much larger civil division and may not control administration policy. The civil division has sought a delay to review one case ? involving three 2005 Justice legal memos on the definition of “cruel and unusual” interrogation tactics. But its request didn’t mention the new FOIA policy. Instead it said Obama’s Jan. 22 executive order on detention and interrogation might alter the government position. Even if the new administration reviews Bush decisions, that’s no guarantee the outcome will change. Last week, Attorney General Eric Holder announced a review of every court case in which the Bush administration used a different legal tool to preserve secrecy: the state secrets privilege it invoked a record number of times to have lawsuits thrown out. On the same day, however, civil division attorney Douglas Letter cited the state secrets privilege in asking a federal appeals court to uphold dismissal of a lawsuit accusing a Boeing Co. subsidiary of illegally helping the CIA fly suspected terrorists to allied foreign nations where they would be tortured. Three times Letter assured the judges his position had been approved by Obama administration officials. “This is not change,” said ACLU executive director Anthony Romero. “President Obama’s Justice Department has disappointingly reneged” on his promise to end “abuse of state secrets.” Have Your Say: Despite Obama call for open government, Justice resists disclosing Bush secrets Please read our posting guidelines before posting. Alternatively you can discuss this report here. Related News
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