Bush Wants To Cancel Any Rights For Those Disappeared Into Secret CIA Prisons OR "Kafka Has Nothing On George Bush"

Really... the Bushies have outdone the worst of what Franz Kafka and George Orwell could imagine and write about. If you documented the stuff Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Gonzales, Bolton and Bolten, and Tony Snow do on an average day and try to sell it as fiction, the docu-novel would be rejected by every publisher as just too "out there" and unbelievable.

From The Carpetbagger Report:

I suspect we've reached the pinnacle of through-the-looking-glass Bush policies. The president's lawyers believe administration officials should have the power to seize suspects, put them in secret CIA prisons, torture them, and then, upon release, censor their ability to tell anyone about what happened to them. Kleiman called this "brutally insane." I can't think of a better description.

The Bush administration has told a federal judge that terrorism suspects held in secret CIA prisons should not be allowed to reveal details of the "alternative interrogation methods" that their captors used to get them to talk.

The government says in new court filings that those interrogation methods are now among the nation's most sensitive national security secrets and that their release — even to the detainees' own attorneys — "could reasonably be expected to cause extremely grave damage." Terrorists could use the information to train in counter-interrogation techniques and foil government efforts to elicit information about their methods and plots, according to government documents submitted to U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton on Oct. 26.

The battle over legal rights for terrorism suspects detained for years in CIA prisons centers on Majid Khan, a 26-year-old former Catonsville resident who was one of 14 high-value detainees transferred in September from the "black" sites to the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. A lawyer with the Center for Constitutional Rights, which represents many detainees at Guantanamo, is seeking emergency access to him.

The government, in trying to block lawyers' access to the 14 detainees, effectively asserts that the detainees' experiences are a secret that should never be shared with the public.

So... you gonna vote on Tuesday or what?