Federal court rules secret US 'terror' courts are illegal.

The unanimous ruling said: "Democracies die behind closed doors. A government operating in the shadow of secrecy stands in complete opposition to the society envisioned by the framers of our Constitution." The strong language made this ruling the most forceful, but far from the first, judicial condemnation of the administration's "war on terrorism".

Thank the gods there are some US justices out there with half a sense of what's right.