Obama: State’s Secrets Privilege Too Broad. I Know! I’ve Used It! | Talking Points Memo

Time‘s Michael Scherer just asked an excellent question. During the campaign, Obama took the position that the Bush administration had abused the state’s secret privilege, but since coming into office he has used it repeatedly to argue that crucial national security cases be thrown out of court.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=143258