Obama's Legal Team Copies Bush's 'State Secrets' Trick to Cover Up Torture

[NicholeW.]

Obama's Legal Team Copies Bush's 'State Secrets' Trick to Cover Up Torture and Renditions
By Liliana Segura, AlterNet. Posted February 10, 2009.


http://www.alternet.org/rights/126137/ 🔗

On Monday in San Francisco, attorneys representing the Obama administration did what many of the president's supporters would have considered unthinkable on election day: they arrived in a federal courtroom and defended one of the most controversial practices of the Bush administration.

"Eric Holder's Justice Department stood up in court today and said that it would continue the Bush policy of invoking state secrets to hide the reprehensible history of torture, rendition and the most grievous human rights violations committed by the American government," Anthony Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union said in an impassioned statement. "This is not change. This is definitely more of the same."

[lisagurl]

We know that our government engages in some horrible behavior as does most. They hide it to preserve nationalism, all humans come from animals and still have some of those behaviors in them.

The truth is hard to swallow.

[RebeccaFog]

yeah, and I'm tired of trying to swallow it.

Under different circumstances, I would become an assassin for the people.

[tekla]

This decision was most disappointing, I only hope they are really reviewing it.