Federal court rules government cannot invoke ‘secret law’
In a case involving the export of rifle scopes, the court said the government failed to specify which items that were subject to export regulations making the too vague for the public to comply with. -DB Secrecy News Federation of American Scientists July 20, 2009 “Government must operate through public laws and regulations” and not through “secret law,” a federal appellate court declared in a decision last month. When our government attempts to do otherwise, the