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State Secrets Privilege

New Justice Department Policy Signals Hope for Justice in Vieques

Brendan DeMelle | Posted 09.29.2009 | Green

Read More: U.S. Navy, Vieques Puerto Rico, National Security, State Secrets Privilege, Eric Holder Attorney General, Obama Justice Department, Sovereign Immunity, Green News
Brendan DeMelle

Dropping the sovereign immunity defense in the Vieques environmental case would demonstrate the Obama administration's commitment to ending the overzealous use of national defense claims.

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Obama To Set Higher Bar For Keeping State Secrets

washingtonpost.com | Carrie Johnson | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Warrantless Wiretapping, State Secrets Privilege, National Security, State Secrets, Obama State Secrets, Department of Justice, Holder Bush State Secrets, Obama National Security, Justice Department, Eric Holder, Rendition, Bush State Secrets, Politics News

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

Read More: Douglas Feith, House of Representatives, Turkey, Valerie Plame Wilson, Roy Blunt, State Secrets, Dan Burton, Sibel Edmonds, Fbi, Blackmail, Valerie Plame, Justice Department, Armenian Genocide, State Department, Dennis Hastert, Paul Wolfowitz, Whistleblowers, National Security, State Secrets Privilege, Marc Grossman, Stephen Solarz, Nuclear Proliferation, Jean Schmidt, Politics News
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

Read More: State Secrets, Supreme Court, Obama Administration, State Secrets Privilege, Barack Obama, Politics News

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

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Increased Judicial, Legislative Oversight of Intelligence Hangs on Pending Bills

Frank Naif | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nsa, Nancy Pelosi Cia, House Intelligence Committee, State Secrets Privilege, Nancy Pelosi, Obama State Secrets, State Secrets, Gang of Eight, Congressional Oversight, Pelosi, Senate Intelligence Committee, Politics News
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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Sam Stein

Biden Won't Comment On State Secrets Law He Once Co-Sponsored

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Mum, Obama Silence, Obama Justice Department, State Secrets Privilege, Biden Obama White House, Biden State Secrets, Joseph Biden, Obama Doj, Politics News

The Vice President's office is declining to weigh in on a bill that would restrict use of the "state secrets privilege" by the Department of Justice, ...

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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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