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Definition: Evidence = information tending to establish fact,visible, conspicuous. What can one think of the assertion of the idea of 'secret evidence' as, perhaps, a misnomer or the political rationalization of the despot or the tyrant. How are The Bush Restoration and The Obama Administration striking similar? They both believe and one asserted and the other asserts a belief in the existence of 'secret evidence' as politically actual, as legally actionable. How would Publius opine on this assertion of Executive Power to determine the reality of a legal entity, viewed by a select few; unchecked by the adversarial give and take of the courtroom?        

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/21/AR2010122104598_2.html?hpid=topnews&sid=ST2010122104609&om_rid=De4wA2&om_mid=_BNEf7IB8WpA2ml

The lettre de cachet and the bill of attainder has been rehabilitated by President Obama's legal team in the name of national security, in the name of a constitutional  exceptionalism, of imminent treat to our security, in the name of the current political hysteria, an American tradition. The attack on the Republic is from within not from without. Not only from the Neo-Conservative political psychotics but from within the New Democratic party that now governs us, in its faltering, clumsy political meekness.We voted for 'hope' and 'change' and instead got the moldering corpse of Clintonism.

Publius 

Here we have the heart wrenching news of the Zero’s and their lack of bonuses, this year, in the New York Banking business. Nelson D. Schwartz and Susanne Craig in the December 19,2010 New York Times  breathlessly recount the awful news, in all it shocking and disheartening detail. The report is alive with disappointment; perhaps a harbinger of the diminution of the dog eat dog vulgarized Social Darwinism, wedded to un-reflective masculine privilege that so dominates American Capitalism? One is reminded of the scene in A Christmas Carol where the ghost of Christmas Future alludes to the death of Tiny Tim. Shocked and horrified a grieving Scrooge resolves to help change the future by compensatory acts of charity, in the present. Could the sacrifice of the Zero’s be such an act of compensation, albeit from the top down? And this being fully congruent with Capitalist Feudalism’s practice.