Secret Laws are laws that citizens and even Congress do not know about or are forbidden from seeing.
A recent Senate hearing examines how these “laws” become law and why they are ‘repugnant’ and ‘an abomination.’
The official page for the hearing with links to written testimony and a video of hearing: Secret Law and the Threat to Democratic and Accountable Government, Hearing, Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Property Rights, April 30, 2008.
A brief overview of the hearing by Steven Aftergood with links his and others’ to testimony: Secret Law Debated in Senate Hearing, by Steven Aftergood, Secrecy News, April 30, 2008.
A concise op-ed by Senator Russ Feingold about secret laws: Government in secret, By Russ Feingold, Los Angeles Times, May 8, 2008.
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