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New State Secrets Policy Amounts to ‘Trust Us’

By | 09.24.09 | 1:48 pm

Ed Brayton at ScienceBlogs (and also of our sister site, The Michigan Messenger) has a thorough analysis of the Obama administration’s new state secrets policy, which I wrote about yesterday.

Ed sums it up: “All of the changes are to the process More…

Whatever Happened to That New Justice Department Policy on ‘State Secrets’?

By | 08.11.09 | 8:58 am

After my post yesterday updating the status of the Obama administration’s ongoing efforts to conceal evidence that British resident and former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Binyam Mohamed was tortured, Ed Brayton, a fellow with the Center for Independent Media and author of the blog Dispatches from the More…

Secret Trade Pacts Have Broad Ability to Thwart U.S. Regulations

By | 04.02.09 | 1:00 pm

Ed Brayton’s excellent investigative piece today for TWI’s sister site, The Michigan Messenger, raises a larger issue about how trade agreements often undercut domestic regulation of toxic industries, without the public ever really knowing about it.

It’s an issue that’s gotten lots of attention in other countries, such as More…