NYT wrote:

It’s hard to imagine what, at this point, needs to be kept secret, other than the ways in which the administration behaved irresponsibly, and quite possibly illegally, in the Masri case.

Decius wrote:

A post on Boingboing drew my attention to this case, in which a German man was rendered to Afghanistan and tortured because his name sounded like someone the CIA was after. Rattle noticed the case last year but otherwise I'm not sure it was discussed on MemeStreams.

Well, you brought it up ~17 months before the appeal was rejected, when the federal district court ruled against him:

A federal judge yesterday threw out the case of a German citizen who says he was wrongfully imprisoned by the CIA, ruling that Khaled al-Masri’s lawsuit poses a “grave risk” of damage to national security by exposing government secrets.

At the time, you said:

I'm linking to this instead of the link I posted earlier, because it contains a link to the actual decision, which is worth reading if you are interested in the subject. The judge is quite comfortable with the idea that you cannot litigate matters relating to state secrets and that only political remedies are available when there is a perception that a crime has been committed.

RE: Supreme Disgrace