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Well, the case isn't new; the choice of the Obama administration to continue to invoke the broadest possible conception of the State Secrets Privilege, as they have done in numerous other cases, is. Full Article at ScienceBlogs
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Calling it the "only responsible choice," Justice Department officials are invoking the state secrets privilege in trying to thwart a suit that challenges the government's secret wiretapping program. Full Article at Law.com
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TigerHawk (ti*ger*hawk): n. 1. The title of this blog and the nom de plume of its founding blogger; 2. A deep bow to the Princeton Tigers and the Iowa Hawkeyes; 3. The nickname for Iowa's Hawkeye logo. Full Article at TigerHawk
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The Obama administration invoked the controversial "state secrets" privilege again on Friday, arguing that if U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker were to permit a legal case against the government to proceed, he would be putting national security at... Full Article at Beltway Blips
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The Obama administration invoked the controversial "state secrets" privilege again on Friday, arguing that if U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker were to permit a legal case against the government to proceed, he would be putting national security at risk. Full Article at Political Punch
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Ultimately, the judicial system will determine whether we have drawn the line at the appropriate place, as is lawful and appropriate under our system of checks and balances
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We are not invoking this privilege to conceal government misconduct or avoid embarrassment, nor are we invoking it to preserve executive power
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The Obama administration has essentially adopted the position of the Bush administration in these cases ... even though candidate Obama was incredibly critical of both the warrantless wiretapping program and the Bush administration's abuse of the state secrets privilege.
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As part of our internal Department review, we specifically looked for a way to allow this case to proceed while carving out classified information, and ultimately concluded there was no way to do so ... Much like previous litigation in which the government asserted the privilege, the core claims in this...
SOURCE: Marc Ambinder
