Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) is proposing legislation that would place limits on the administration’s ability to use the state secrets privilege to argue for the dismissal of lawsuits on the grounds that revealing evidence would endanger national security. The bill would require the administration to allow the court to review the evidence it claims should be privileged. In the past, the Bush administration has invoked the privilege without making all the evidence in question available to the court. (AP)
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