Keeping Detentions Secret (NYTimes Editorial)

The Supreme Court made it easier this week for the government to drape a cloak of secrecy over the imprisonment of people accused of crimes when it rejected an appeal seeking the identity of hundreds of men rounded up after the Sept. 11 attacks. The freedom of all Americans is diminished. …

The Supreme Court’s decision not to hear this appeal comes as the Bush administration is increasingly asserting the right to conduct law enforcement in secret. …

”Those who would give up essential freedoms for security, deserve neither freedom nor security.” — Ben Franklin