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Obama To Set Higher Bar For Keeping State Secrets

washingtonpost.com | Carrie Johnson | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

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The Obama administration will announce a new policy Wednesday making it much more difficult for the government to claim that it is protecting state se...

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FBI Whistleblower: Hastert, Burton, Blunt, Other Members of Congress 'Bribed, Blackmailed'

Brad Friedman | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Douglas Feith, Turkey, Valerie Plame Wilson, Lobbyists, Roy Blunt, Ohio, State Secrets, Sibel Edmonds, Dan Burton, Fbi, Valerie Plame, Blackmail, Tom Lantos, Bribery, Armenian Genocide, Dennis Hastert, Paul Wolfowitz, Whistleblowers, Nuclear Weapons, National Security, State Secrets Privilege, Marc Grossman, Stephen Solarz, Jean Schmidt, FBI Surveillance, Politics News
Brad Friedman

The broad criminal conspiracy is said to have resulted in, among other things, the sale of nuclear weapons technology to black market interests including Pakistan, Iran, North Korea, Libya and others.

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Formerly-'Gagged' FBI Whistleblower Details Congressional Blackmail, Bribery, Espionage, Corruption in Remarkable Videotaped Deposition

Brad Friedman | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

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Brad Friedman

Just over two weeks ago, FBI translator-turned-whistleblower Sibel Edmonds was finally allowed to speak about much of what the Bush Administration spent years trying to keep her from discussing publicly.

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Obama Admin Files Supreme Court Brief Defending State Secrets Privilege

New York Times | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

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A Supreme Court filing from the Obama administration last month has set off alarm bells on the left. ...

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Seymour Hersh Stands By Reporting On Cheney Assassination Squad

The Daily Beast | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics

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The New Yorker's Seymour Hersh was mocked in March when he referred to Dick Cheney's secret squad of CIA assassins. Now, he talks to the Daily Beast a...

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Liz Cheney Refuses To Discuss Dick's Role In CIA: 'He Doesn't Talk About Classified Programs."

AP | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Vice President Dick Cheney's daughter Liz said Tuesday she doesn't believe her father did anything wrong in connection with a secre...

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Increased Judicial, Legislative Oversight of Intelligence Hangs on Pending Bills

Frank Naif | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics

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Frank Naif

If enacted, the State Secrets Protection Act would allow courts to review in camera Federal assertions of the state secret privilege.

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State Secrets Showdown: Judge Threatens To Penalize US In Wiretap Case

Washington Post | Carrie Johnson | Posted 06.25.2009 | Politics

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President Obama vowed last week to rein in the use of a legal privilege that allows the administration to discard lawsuits that involve "state secrets...

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Jason Linkins

Obama's State Secrets Position: Selling Out Or Clever Ploy?

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.01.2009 | Politics

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Yesterday, I posted an item that criticized President Barack Obama for failing to take the sorts of actions that matched his answer to Time's Michael ...

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Jason Linkins

Obama's State Secrets Answer Defies Credulity

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.31.2009 | Politics

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At last night's 100 Days In Office press conference, President Barack Obama was asked a smart question from Time Magazine's Michael Scherer, on his po...

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Obama and The State Secrets Smackdown

Ari Melber | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics

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Ari Melber

Barack Obama has drawn praise for transparency reforms during his first 100 days in office, but his use of the "state secrets" privilege to squash lawsuits on torture and surveillance is drawing mounting opposition.

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Transparency in the First 100 Days: Grading the Obama Administration

Elizabeth Goitein | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics

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Elizabeth Goitein

In cases where people seek accountability for government misconduct the administration's commitment to transparency falls by the wayside in every instance.

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Will Obama Block Release of Key Bush-era Torture Memos?

Jeremy Scahill | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics

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Jeremy Scahill

As has been pointed out by journalists, human rights lawyers and critics, President Obama has continued -- and continues to defend -- some of the Bush administration's most repressive "War on Terror" policies.

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Accountability...and Its Opposite

Elizabeth Goitein | Posted 03.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: State Secrets Privilege, State Secrets, Obama Torture Prosecutions, CIA Torture, Federal Prosecution, Bush Prosecutions, Obama Torture, Extraordinary Rendition, Politics News
Elizabeth Goitein

Obama has concluded that there are some subjects that we just don't get to know about -- which means there are some areas where the government may break the law with impunity.

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Obama Officials Defend Controversial State Secret Decision

The Atlantic | Posted 03.14.2009 | Politics

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The State Secret Privilege is perhaps the most powerful executive tool available for any president to use, and thus the Obama administration's decisio...

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Obama's State Secrets Slipup Means We Need to Be Louder

Leah Anthony Libresco | Posted 03.13.2009 | Politics

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Leah Anthony Libresco

No politician is good enough to be trusted to act justly without constant lobbying and pressure from activists nationwide.

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Eric Holder Reviewing All Bush State Secrets

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 03.12.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Eric Holder, the new attorney general, has ordered a review of all claims of state secrets, which were used under President Bush to...

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Extraordinary Rendition and No Apologies

William Fisher | Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics

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William Fisher

Maher Arar, the poster boy for the program of "extraordinary rendition" has again been denied his day in court -- and Congressional efforts are floundering to reign in the Bush administration.

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