I wish Obama would do me a favor and tell me how the “state secrets” invocation isn’t a way to do an end-run around the separation of powers? It was a bullshit moved when Bush did it, and it hasn’t changed one bit.
The government is effectively arguing that it can act with impunity because the evidence that the government has misbehaved is a secret that can’t be used to seek to demonstrate violations of the law or the Constitution and to seek redress.
Did the feds abuse your rights? Too bad, they say, because you won’t be allowed to prove it in court.
I know I’m picking on Barack a bit right now, especially given that I haven’t posted a damned thing applauding him for the stuff he’s done that I appreciate. But c’mon…