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Obama Justice Department Supports Bush ‘State Secrets’ Claims

By | 02.09.09 | 3:24 pm

In a move that’s sure to dismay some of President Obama’s faithful, the new administration today stood up in a federal appeals court and reiterated the Bush administrations’ arguments that victims of “extraordinary rendition” and torture should not be allowed to bring their claims in federal court because doing so More…