US District Judge Beryl Howell has rejected a FOIA lawsuit seeking information on the costs of building and maintaining the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, saying the Pentagon is entitled to keep it secret.
The Pentagon responded to the initial FOIA request from the Miami Herald in 2010, saying they had a single one page document which contained the sought information, but that the entirety of it was classified.
That sparked the lawsuit, and the Pentagon filed a document arguing in favor of the secrecy. The court document was itself classified by the Pentagon, and the name of the official who filed the document was itself kept secret.
Judge Howell’s ruling didn’t involve any actual explanation for why the facility’s costs should be secret, but simply insisted that he saw no evidence of “bad faith” by the Pentagon in keeping it secret.
Of course. These alleged "judges" are a joke. A costly joke on the American people.
Gitmo — Terrorism, the whole terrorism and nothing but terrorism
The main purpose for Gitmo is to terrorize us by terrorizing our vengeance driven enemies. And the fact that such vengeance creation greatly increases terrorism in the Middle-East, this is just frosting on the cake.
simply insisted that he saw no evidence of “bad faith” by the Pentagon in keeping it secret.
She, apparently. Of Beryl A. Howell:
"She previously served in law enforcement, and in public and private practice as an attorney, counsel to Congressional committees, and recording industry lobbyist." –yet also judged a case on BitTorrent: "gave lawyers representing rights holders carte blanche to retrieve the identities of thousands of BitTorrent users."
"Howell is married to Michael Rosenfeld, an executive producer at National Geographic Television & Film.[3] They have three children.[3]"
…you know, I think we tend to assume GTMO is a USg thing, rather than another freeby. Wonder just what 'good faith' there is in secrets on this particular matter. Faithful to who?