Posted on 02/23/2009 10:55:46 AM PST by Free ThinkerNY
President Obama’s administration is moving aggressively to protect what the government insists are “state secrets” from a Bush-era wiretapping program.
Justice Department lawyers filed an emergency motion Friday with a federal appeals court in an effort to block a lower court’s order that the government must show lawyers for the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation a copy of a document indicating that the group’s communications were being intercepted. The document has been the subject of a running legal battle since the papers were accidentally sent to attorneys for the group in 2004 and subsequently retrieved.
“Disclosure of the material at issue here would cause exceptionally grave harm to the national security and result in irreparable injury to the United States,” the Justice Department wrote. It said information about the surveillance program is considered “Top Secret — Sensitive Compartmented Information.”
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Do you hear that sound? That popping sound? Like DUmmies’ heads exploding all over America?
They’ve been Obama-bamboozled.
“They’ve been Obama-bamboozled.”
And so have we.....
doubt it.
Remember, it’s a cult.
He won’t even have to make an excuse, they’ll do it for him.
The moonbats are NOT going to like that!
I love that. It's like someone going crazy with bubble wrap. ;^)
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