Congress Urged to Address State Secrets Privilege

News Type: Opinion — Seeded on Wed Oct 10, 2007 11:57 PM EDT

Article Source: fas.org

politics, congress, law, constitution, bush-administration, scotus, courts, executive-branch, checks-and-balances, state-secrets-privilege, steven-aftergood

Seeded by Aine MacDermot

If foreign terrorists set out to undermine confidence in the American legal system as an arbiter of justice, they could hardly do more damage than the Bush Administration has done by its use of the "state secrets" privilege.

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Groups: Left of Center, Open Mic
Regions: Washington DC

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