State Secrets

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Feb 10 2009, 12:48 pm by Marc Ambinder

I'm going to spend some more time on the phone this afternoon attempting to figure out why the Obama Administration ratified the invocation of the state secrets' privilege yesterday. We know what happened; we know how civil libertarians responded; we know that the Justice Department used the occasion to announce a review of other invocations; we know next to nothing about the sequence of events in this case; we know the how, but not the why.

Comments (1)

funkytown February 10, 2009 2:23 PM

Keep up the good work on this effort. More needs to be known about the Obama administration's rationale moving forward in defending this all-too-often abused privilege.