Judge: FBI must pay penalty to Calif. Muslims

The FBI must pay the legal fees of Muslim activist groups that sued the federal agency for access to its files, according to a U.S. District Court ruling filed Thursday. Judge Cormac Carney made clear that the financial sanction was not based on the merits of the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California's Freedom of Information Act case, but it was to punish a government that chose to lie to its own judicial system.

Here's the problem with claiming in the interest of "National Security" in Court.

After a nearly five-year court battle, Carney ruled in April that the council could not review additional records of FBI inquiries into its activities, but he berated the government for misleading the court about the existence of the files.

Why is the truth so hard for these government agencies?

"Parties cannot choose when to tell the Court the truth. They must be truthful with the Court at all stages of the proceedings if judicial review is to have any real meaning," Carney wrote.

Truthful...What a great concept.

The ruling refutes the FBI's claim that admitting the files existed would have compromised national security, noting the privacy of sensitive filings can be protected by the courts.

Who exactly gets to decide "sensitive"?

"And the Court rejects the Government's suggestion that it initially had to deceive the Court to protect national security. The Government could have availed itself of routine court procedures without compromising national security," Carney wrote.

If you or I decide to deceive a Judge, guess where they would put us.

The group had requested access to all records created since January 2001, including surveillance, monitoring and other investigations of the council.

And now at the end of the article....The Truth.

The Government does not want to release it's surveillance records.

Why? It does not want us to know their methods.

Because, I think we would be quite surprised if we learned the "Methods" they are using.

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Thanks for the heads up

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