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A Talking Point Built Of Straw

By The Daily Dish
Nov 23 2009, 11:49 AM ET

Greenwald fisks the Republican meme - "trials in a real court would lead to the disclosure of classified information that would help the Terrorists":

To see how false this claim is, all anyone ever had to was look at the Classified Information Procedures Act, a short and crystal clear 1980 law that not only permits, but requires, federal courts to undertake extreme measures to ensure the concealment of classified information, even including concealment from the defendant himself.



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