Salon's article on Obama's outrageous endorsement of the "state secret's" privilege.

Yeah well, I told you so! Time to stop cheering and put your fighting gloves on, naive progressives! There's a lot more coming. Politics as usual.


Obama fails his first test on civil liberties and accountability -- resoundingly and disgracefully

The Obama DOJ today embraced one of the most abused Bush weapons -- the "state secrets" privilege -- in order to block torture and rendition victims from their day in court.

Glenn Greenwald

Feb. 09, 2009

PLEASE ACCESS THE ENTIRE ARTICLE (WITH UPDATES) AT SALON

ALSO READ ABOUT OBAMA'S REVERSAL HERE (Tuesday Feb. 10, 2009
The 180-degree reversal of Obama's State Secrets position


From the Obama/Biden campaign website, mybarackobama.com, here was what the Obama campaign was saying -- back then -- about the State Secrets privilege:

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