The state secrets doctrine
was no fun when the Bush administration used it to cover up American complicity in torture, and it remains equally vile when it's the Obama administration
doing the same thing. I'm really ticked off about this. Even though the crimes Obama's administration is helping cover up through the invocation of this "principle" were perpetuated by the Bush administration, I agree with
David Luban and
Andrew Sullivan: by helping bury these crimes against humanity, you become complicit in them.
ya this was pretty abhorrent. the entire doctrine was conceived out of a cover up for gross negligence. maybe instead of asking about arod at the press conference yesterday that reporter from the post could have gone after this. this was actually an area i was hoping that obama would fix.
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