Still, Where is the outrage?

On what planet are we living on when a "moral democracy" like the U.S. gets away with torture on the grounds that it's a state secret? Why do we sound more and more like a Libya or Russian KGB in the 80s than the U.S.?

From the New York Times:
A German citizen who said he was kidnapped by the Central Intelligence Agency and tortured in a prison in Afghanistan lost his last chance to seek redress in court today when the Supreme Court declined to consider his case.

The justices’ refusal to take the case of Khaled el-Masri let stand a March 2 ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, in Richmond, Va. That court upheld a 2006 decision by a federal district judge, who dismissed Mr. Masri’s lawsuit on the grounds that trying the case could expose state secrets.


And I ask again, where is the outrage?

P.S. If I were a Democratic candidate for President, I would be saying this until I'm blue in the face:
"Vote for me because in my administration torture, secret CIA prisons and pretenses at nation building will be over. Period."