IF TORTURE IS SO OBJECTIONABLE...:

Anti-secrecy groups unhappy with Obama: Report compares use of executive privilege to Bush's (AP, 9/09/09)

Advocates for more open government who had hoped that the Obama administration would be less secretive than its predecessor say it is continuing to use executive privilege to block lawsuits over allegations of past abuses in the fight against terrorism. [...]

[C]ivil liberties groups argue that the Obama administration's interpretation of the state secrets privilege so far is the same as the George W. Bush administration's.

"This administration is continuing to use the enlarged executive powers of the Bush-Cheney administration," said Patrice McDermott, director of OpenTheGovernment.org, who oversaw the report.

...then why does the UR keep virtually waterboarding the Left?

Posted by Orrin Judd at September 9, 2009 1:44 PM