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No More Torture Taxis!

Help fill the courtroom to let the Obama adminstration and Jeppesen DataPlan know
the world is watching their complicity in crimes against humanity.

Meet outside the courthouse before the case starts at 10:00 am in Court Room 1.

Who:
Ben Wizner, staff attorney for the ACLU National Security Program, will argue before
an en banc panel of 11 judges from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
What:
Arguments in Mohamed, et al. v. Jeppesen, the ACLU's lawsuit against Boeing
subsidiary Jeppesen DataPlan for its role in the Bush administration's
"extraordinary rendition" program. The government is appealing an earlier ruling
allowing the case to go forward. The government has repeatedly misused the state secrets privilege in an attempt to have the case thrown out. To this day, not a single victim of the Bush
administration's torture policies has had his day in court.

The Obama Justice Department has adopted the Bush regime's version of the "state
secrets privilege" - created originally as a narrow evidentiary privilege for
sensitive national security information -- as a broad shield to protect the
government from exposure of its own misconduct.

One use of this policy is to continue operation of secret prisons in Afghanistan
where detainees have been tortured and where human rights organizations like the Red
Cross are refused access to prisoners.

Watch an ACLU video about the case here.