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	<title><![CDATA[What Obama Should Do About State Secrets]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-firger/what-obama-should-do-abou_b_165830.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>Monday's hearing in the <em>Mohamed v. Jeppesen Dataplan</em> "extraordinary rendition" lawsuit was a <a href="http://www.aclu.org/safefree/torture/38695prs20090209.html">rude awakening</a> for civil libertarians expecting the Obama/Holder Justice Department to make a clean break from Bush era policies on secrecy.</p>

<p>Most lefty commentators greeted the news that DOJ will (at least for the time being) maintain the Bush administration's position on the state secrets privilege with some mixture of <a href="http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2009/02/dear-obama-administration.html">disappointment</a>, <a href="http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/02/10/obama/">dismay</a>, and <a href="http://aclu.org/safefree/torture/38695prs20090209.html">alarm</a>, and with good reason. Even the <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/02/obama-bush-and.html">most charitable reading</a>...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2009-02-12T16:34:00-05:00</date_published>
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