Sat 28 Feb 2009
Obama’s efforts to block a judicial ruling on Bush’s illegal eavesdropping
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Glenn Greenwald Salon 2/28/09
The Obama DOJ’s embrace of Bush’s state secrets privilege in the Jeppesen (torture/rendition) case generated substantial outrage, and rightly so. But it’s now safe to say that far worse is the Obama DOJ’s conduct in the Al-Haramain case — the only remaining case against the Government with any real chance of resulting in a judicial ruling on the legality of Bush’s NSA warrantless eavesdropping program. (more…)