Et tu, Joe?
Last year, while trying to win the Democratic nomination for president, Joe Biden co-sponsored a bill to restrict the use of the “state secrets privilege” by the Department of Justice. But today, asked by the Huffington Post for Biden’s current stance on the legislation, a spokesman for the vice president replied: “No comment on this from here.” That “no comment” follows a similar tight-lipped stance from the White House itself.The bill was reintroduced in February by Senators Leahy, Feingold, Kennedy, and Specter, in response to the Obama administration’s use of the privilege in a wiretapping case. Earlier this month, the Justice Department asserted the privilege in a second wiretapping case, provoking outrage among progressives, and prompting Feingold to again express his concern over the issue.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=143829