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I followed the citation for "secret jail time". Fortunately, at least for that allegation, it appears to be speculation in another article [1].

[1]http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/20...

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There were two links - http://www.rcfp.org/browse-media-law-resources/news-media-la...

While I agree that the rights of the prisoner in the case you link to appear to be excessively curtailed , he was not "secretly imprisoned".

Secret imprisonment would be a clear indication of totalitarianism, but doesn't, as far as we know, appear to be happening on US soil.

For heaven's sake, if Guantanamo isn't a clear indicator to you, I doubt that secret imprisonment, when it comes or when it's proved to you, will be taken as a clear indicator either.

The people in Guantanamo are known to be there... albeit some of them shouldn't be.

Now they're known to be there. But there were secret prisons in other countries where captives were held that were only revealed later: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_prison#Official_recogni...

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