http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2008/08/state_secrets.html Secrecy News from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy Thu, 24 May 2012 10:04:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2008/08/state_secrets.html/comment-page-1#comment-1787 Warren Craft Sun, 17 Aug 2008 02:13:04 +0000 http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/?p=1871#comment-1787 So, Steven -- my brief look through the report suggests that the proposed legislation would indeed be beneficial. Is that your take on this too? Specter notes that the legislation would include "a codified test for evaluating state secrets that requires courts to review the evidence in camera." Bizarre that this has not been common practice to this point, and ironic that the US v Reynolds case eventually proved to involve serious misleading of the court by the government! So, Steven — my brief look through the report suggests that the proposed legislation would indeed be beneficial. Is that your take on this too? Specter notes that the legislation would include “a codified test for evaluating state secrets that requires courts to review the evidence in camera.” Bizarre that this has not been common practice to this point, and ironic that the US v Reynolds case eventually proved to involve serious misleading of the court by the government!

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