Last night I said Obama needed a distraction for some reason, or the WH logs wouldn't have been released when they were. Everything for a political purpose with this crew. Meant more for his base than the Right, as the headlines boasted of the most transparent administration evah! Holder was invoking the States Secret Privilege ... Again, according to Jake Tapper. Meanwhile the Media department of the Obama administration aka the rest of the MSM is talking about how transparent he is. Well, he is that! heh! If one is actually watching him with a more cynical eye, which is required to be a good reporter, of course. Tapper may eventually make his career off this guy. I hope he has someone starting his car. ; )
Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement about the case, Shubert et. al v. Obama, that "there is no way for this case to move forward without jeopardizing ongoing intelligence activities that we rely upon to protect the safety of the American people."
The case is a class action suit brought by four Brooklynites alleging that the Bush administration engaged in wholesale dragnet surveillance of ordinary Americans in which they were unjustly caught because they regularly made phone calls and sent emails to individuals outside the U.S., specifically in the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Egypt, the Netherlands, and Norway.
Obama administration officials argued that even addressing or attempting to refute the plaintiffs’ claim would require the administration "to disclose intelligence sources and methods, or the lack thereof."
Holder said he was invokingthe privilege despite having outlined new policies and procedures last month containingnew internal and external checks and balances for the Justice Department to follow before invokingthe privilege, requiring "a thorough, multi-stage review and rely(ing) upon robust judicial and congressional oversight."
Holder is trying to pass the fiction that the Privacy Act does not apply to the WH:
http://www.judicialwatch.org/news/2009/oct/obama-administration-tells-federal-court-privacy-act-does-not-apply-white-house
Posted by: Mr. Sauce | Saturday, October 31, 2009 at 01:32 PM