Its’ sad to see that Obama is going to use the same state secrets argument to prevent the American public from seeing the disgusting depths the Bush administration stooped to:
“This is not change,” he said in a statement. “This is definitely more of the same. Candidate Obama ran on a platform that would reform the abuse of state secrets, but President Obama’s Justice Department has disappointingly reneged on that important civil liberties issue. If this is a harbinger of things to come, it will be a long and arduous road to give us back an America we can be proud of again.”
A Justice Department spokesman, Matt Miller, said the government did not comment on pending litigation, but he seemed to suggest the Obama administration would invoke the privilege more sparingly than its predecessor.
