Secret 9/11 case before high court
"It's the case that doesn't exist.
Even though two different federal courts
have conducted hearings and issued rulings,
there has been no public record of any action.
No documents are available. No files.
No lawyer is allowed to speak about it. Period.
Yet this seemingly phantom case does exist
- and is now headed to the US Supreme Court
in what could produce a significant test
of a question as old as the Star Chamber,
abolished in 17th-century England:
How far should a policy of total secrecy
extend into a system of justice?"