10-09-12 ACLU is Dismissed - Torture Flights will Continue... // Se cierra la ACLU - Tortura vuelo continuará ...

The ACLU Is Dismissed

Obama wins one for the Presidency on the state-secrets privilege.

Another week, another legal vindication for the Bush, er, the Obama Administration's war on terror. On Wednesday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals cited the executive branch's state-secrecy privilege to dismiss an ACLU attempt to challenge the legality of sending terror suspects from the U.S. to other countries. Our friends on the left are now going nuts about "torture flights," but we'll take this decision as evidence that this Administration has its grown-up moments.

The case involves flight-logistics company Jeppesen DataPlan Inc., a Boeing subsidiary the ACLU accuses of being involved in arranging flights to move five terrorist suspects to ...