Posted on 04/17/2009 5:13:23 PM PDT by STARWISE
The Obama administration suffered a bit of a legal setback this afternoon: a federal judge in California rejected the administration's assertion of the state secrets privilege in the civil suit brought by an Islamic charity that was allegedly subjected to illegal NSA surveillance.
The order, in Al-Haramain v. Bush, requires the government to come up with a way to safeguard the classified information it plans to present in the NSA's defense by May 8. Judge Vaughn Walker noted that the government has elsewhere made provisions for the discussion of Top Secret/SCI information.
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Walker crafted his order narrowly to prevent the government from appealing it immediately to the Ninth Circuit.
(Excerpt) Read more at politics.theatlantic.com ...
Obama just published state secrets for all to see and he’s claiming this.
Obama needs to go.
He is so much more horrific than even my worst nightmares.
God help us.
"The United States has advanced no argument that would suggest a reason why the court’s use of a protective order in instant matter modeled on those in use in the Guantánamo Bay would not adequately protect the classified information at issue here."
BO wants to protect Moslems, not anyone else.
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