<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3c909aad-9319-4099-a81f-8831f28f6fa3/7950FAFC-BB04-4142-ADB8-141345464A17/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/01-0" href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/01-0" style="font-size: 11px;">www.commondreams.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/01-0"><H1 class="title">Obama's Latest Use of 'Secrecy' to Shield Presidential Lawbreaking</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/01-0"><SPAN class="submitted"> Published on Sunday, November 1, 2009 by <A href="http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2009/11/01/state_secrets/index.html" target="_blank" class="external">Salon.com</A> </SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/01-0"><H2 class="subtitle">What was once depicted as a grave act of lawlessness -- Bush's NSA program -- is now deemed a vital state secret. </H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/01-0"><P class="author">by Glenn Greenwald</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/01-0">The Obama administration has, yet again, <A href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/10/obama-administration-invokes-state-secrets-privilegeagain.html" target="_blank" class="external">asserted the broadest and most radical version of the "state secrets" privilege</A> -- which previously caused so much controversy and turmoil <A href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/4/29/0759/54872" target="_blank" class="external">among loyal Democrats</A> (when used by Bush/Cheney) -- to attempt to block courts from ruling on the legality of the government's domestic surveillance activities.  Obama did so again this past Friday -- just six weeks after the <A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/23/us/politics/23secrets.html?hp" target="_blank" class="external">DOJ announced voluntary new internal guidelines</A> which, it insisted, would prevent abuses of the state secrets privilege.  Instead -- as <A href="http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/09/23/obamas-new-state-secrets-policy-is-reaffirmation-of-bushs-policy/" target="_blank" class="external">predicted</A> -- the DOJ continues to embrace the very same "state secrets" theories of the Bush administration </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7950FAFC-BB04-4142-ADB8-141345464A17/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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