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Apesar da chamada de Obama para o governo aberto, a justiça resiste divulgar segredos de Bush
Segunda-feira, fevereiro 16o, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP)? Apesar do presidente Obama' o voto de s para abrir mais do que sempre o governo, o departamento da justiça está defendendo decisões da administração de Bush para manter o segredo muitos originais sobre o wiretapping doméstico, o levantamento de dados em viajantes e os ESTADOS UNIDOS. cidadãos, e interrogação de terroristas suspeitados. Ao meio dúzia lawsuits, advogados da justiça opuseram movimentos formais ou as ofertas out-of-court spurned a atrasem a ação de corte até que a liberdade nova das reescritas da administração de guidelines do ato da informação e decidam-se se as réguas novas puderam permitir que o público v mais. Em somente um caso tem o departamento da justiça concordado suspender um lawsuit de FOIA até os originais disputados pode ser reavaliado sob os guidelines ainda-à-est-escritos. Esse caso envolve negociações em um tratado anti-falsificando, não as táticas mais controversas, mais secretas do anti-terrorismo que spawned os outros lawsuits as well as promessas de Obama de um openness mais grande. “Os sinais no último que poucos dias não estão incentivando inteiramente,” disse Jameel Jaffer, um advogado para União americana das liberdades civis, que arquivou diversos lawsuits que procuram os rationales legais de administração de Bush para o wiretapping doméstico warrantless e para seu tratamento de detidos do terrorismo. Os grupos que advogam o governo aberto, liberdades civis e privacidade eram overjoyed que Obama em seu primeiro dia no escritório inverteu a política de FOIA imposta pelo primeiro Attorney General de Bush, John Ashcroft. O departamento da justiça de Bush disse que usaria toda a base legal legitimate defender registros retendo do público. Obama prometeu “um nível unprecedented do openness no governo” e requisitou os guidelines novos de FOIA escritos com uma “presunção no favor da divulgação.” Mas as ações da justiça nas cortes desde então moldaram a dúvida em como distante a administração nova irá. Em um acesso procurando do caso de FOIA a governar das réguas FBI' armazém Investigative dos dados de s? uma base de dados do computador que contem 1 bilhão originais searchable sobre americanos e estrangeiros? A justiça que os advogados disseram uma corte de distrito aqui quinta-feira, “ele não está desobstruída que os guidelines novos, uma vez que emitido, seja retrospective a FOIA pede que a agência tem terminado já processar.” Pediram a corte para governar preferivelmente que o FBI fêz bastantes. 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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