Invoking ‘State Secrets’: Still the Status Quo? | Talking Points Memo

by Marian Wang, ProPublica

Earlier this week, we flagged an interesting piece in the New York Times about the U.S. government invoking the state secrets privilege to block evidence in lawsuits against a contractor who had duped the U.S. government into spending millions on what many now consider to be fake counterterrorism technology.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=114213