I’m not comfortable with secret courts or secret cases.
In the nation’s capital, which has had a serious problem with drug gangs murdering government witnesses, the secrecy has reached another level — the use of secret dockets. For hundreds of such defendants over the past few years in this city, should someone acquire the actual case number for them and enter it in the U.S. District Court’s computerized record system, the computer will falsely reply, “no such case” — rather than acknowledging that it is a sealed case.
I can understand the necessity of secrecy prior to and during military operations. But the drug war should not be treated like a military operation. Government has an obligation to operate in a moral and forthright manner.
Criminal proceedings should always be public and courts should always be accountable for the judgements they hand down.