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I don't understand why terrorists even need to be trialled in secret - what's the government's stated excuse? That we decided its just not worth properly funding our legal system to ensue a prompt trial and protect the rule of law?
Going off memory so someone please correct me but I think it was introduced by Howard and the excuse was national security, naturally. More specifically to keep secret any sensitive evidence that could compromise national security. I guess there is just no other solution to that other than to throw rule of law in the bin ๐คท
Yeah - that definitely feels like a Howard post-911 destroy civil liberties kind of thing. I do think it's something we were doing before that, but it ramped up to an industrial scale under Howard.