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Pretty much HATE this Supreme Court, but am slowly learning to HATE the lies and liars behind their decisions too. John Stewart video is on right hand side of Salon link. The Supreme Court yesterday denied a petition of review from Maher Arar, the Canadian and Syrian citizen who was abducted by the U.S. Government at a stopover at JFK Airport when returning to Canada in 2002, held incommunicado for two weeks, and then rendered to Syria, where he spent the next 10 months being tortured, even though — as everyone acknowledges — he was guilty of absolutely nothing. Arar sued the U.S. Government for what was done to him, and last November, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of his lawsuit on the ground that courts have no right to interfere in these decisions of the Executive Branch. That was the decision which the U.S. Supreme Court let stand today, ending Arar's attempt to be compensated for what was done to him. http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/06/14/arar/index.html added by: Incredulous