Continued abuse of the "State Secrets" privilege?

y Peter Funt | March 31st, 2011 | 18 Comments
Government remains skilled at keeping secrets.
Although the Obama administration pledged early on to exercise greater care when using the so-called “state secrets privilege” in court, it appears that there has been little meaningful change since the Bush years. Indeed, new research at Georgetown University suggests that the degree of government secrecy in legal cases by both administrations during the last decade may be greater than previously realized.

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GU’s law center has created a State Secrets Archive, said to be the first such repository of its kind. Prof. Laura Donohue, who heads the project, concludes that we are aware of only “the tip of the iceberg” in legal application of government secrecy.
More: http://blog.cagle.com/2011/03/keeping-secrets/