Yes, Obama is on the defensive.
He just stated that he intends to severely curtail the the states secret privilege. WTH?
From Wikipedia:
The State Secrets Privilege is an evidentiary rule created by United States legal precedent. The court is asked to exclude evidence from a legal case based solely on an affidavit submitted by the government stating court proceedings might disclose sensitive information which might endanger national security,[1][2][3][4][5][6] and military secrets in particular as in the case of United States v. Reynolds,[7] the first case that saw formal recognition of the privilege.
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This speech sounds like a high school essay that was required to be a minimum number of words. It’s all just repetition and filler, like it was designed just to fill a certain amount of time, to piss Cheney off!
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