The Washington Times reports on the Obama administration’s use of the state secrets privilege:
A bitter pill for the left, which had hoped Obama would just give back the powers the Bush administration had accrued for the executive branch. But this is, perhaps, evidence that the Obama administration is learning from its mistakes. The release of the so-called torture memos blew up in Obama’s face and sparked a severe backlash against the administration’s detainee policies. Obama subsequently refused to release photos that the ACLU and the far-left wanted as evidence for their case that prisoner abuse had been sanctioned by the Bush administration and had become routine on their watch. Now it’s clear that Obama is holding the line on a whole range of lawsuits. There are certainly a lot of folks in the Obama administration who would love to give a bunch of terrorists their day in court to sue members of the intelligence community. Fortunately, it seems like someone over there has realized that that would be a political disaster for the administration as well as an outrage against the Americans who’ve spent the last eight years working to keep America safe.
