‘During the presidential campaign, Obama criticized Bush for being too quick to invoke the state secrets claim. But last Friday, his Justice Department filed a motion in a warrantless wiretapping lawsuit, brought by the digital-rights group EFF. And the Obama-ites took a page out of the Bush DOJ’s playbook by demanding that the suit, Jewel v. NSA, be dismissed entirely under the state secrets privilege, arguing that allowing it go forward would jeopardize national security.’ This is ‘Coming on the heels of the two other recent cases in which the new administration has asserted the state secrets privilege’
– TPM Muckraker, ‘Expert Consensus: Obama Mimics Bush On State Secrets‘, 9 April 2009.
EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) article, 6 April 2009.
Online petition: ‘Tell Obama: Stop blocking court review of illegal wiretapping‘.
Show us where the bodies are buried, Obama!!!
