Saturday, March 14, 2009

Obama administration doesn't actually think using state secrets privilege to hide torture practices is a bad idea

Pop quiz: if a president's justice department were to invoke the state secrets privilege from letting evidence be admitted into a case about torturing of potential terrorist suspects that the US government detained (and shipped off to other countries to be tortured, etc. etc.), which president would you associate that with?

a) Bush
b) Obama
c) All of the above

The correct answer is C

Looks like all that talk of transparency was all for naught. Will the American people ever really find out what horrors the government has been perpetrating for the past decade? Not while Obama is in office, it seems.

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