Area 51 Lawsuit Appeal Rejected [news]
From: campbell@ufomind.com (Glenn Campbell, Las Vegas)
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 19:28:21 -0800
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Las Vegas Review-Journal, Friday, January 09, 1998
AIR FORCE SECRECY UPHELD
Groom Lake workers are not entitled to information about a classified
base for their litigation, a court rules.
By Bob Egelko
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO -- An attempt to pry loose information about
allegations of toxic waste burning at a secret Air Force site in the
desert -- said to be the "Area 51" of extraterrestrial lore -- hit a
stone wall of secrecy in a federal appeals court Thursday.
The lawyer for five current and former workers at the base, and
the widows of two workers killed allegedly by toxic wastes, are not
entitled to learn whether hazardous substances exist there or how they
are handled, the results of a federal inspection or even the name of
the base, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said.
The 3-0 ruling upheld the Air Force's claim that giving out that
information could endanger national security and a 1995 order by
President Clinton further restricting disclosure. Before arguments in
the litigation in November, the judges reviewed confidential
government statements, while Air Force security officers guarded their
conference room.
Continued at:
http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/1998/Jan-09-Fri-1998/news/6738778.html
Also at:
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/archives/1998/jan/08/506681867.html
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