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More Skepticism of Obama’s New ‘State Secrets’ Policy

By | 09.28.09 | 9:04 am

Last week I wrote about the serious limitations on President Obama’s new policy on the administration’s use of the “state secrets privilege” to dismiss cases charging the government with torture, warrantless wiretapping and other egregious abuses of executive power. Although the government has said it promises to invoke More…

Court Allows Former Enemy Combatant to Sue John Yoo

By | 06.15.09 | 8:44 am

Late on Friday, after some of us had long since packed up our computers, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White in San Francisco ruled that Jose Padilla, the American citizen declared an “enemy combatant” by President George W. Bush and incarcerated at a U.S. Naval brig in South Carolina, may More…