Obama Administration Invokes State Secrets Privilege…Again

tinhorn errr tincup....blah blah blah...The President's privilege. Obama has that right as the 44th President and the 43 before him....Deal with it...Vote 2012...

No one ever refused Bush for invoking national security so why not Obama? Cheney is still using that line.

It is sad that courts give Obama the benefit of doubt on security issues which was refused to Nixon

The American people must be dumber than rocks,,,,,that is ,,,supporters of BOTH the Democratic AND Republican parties,,,,,WHY do you people continue to support TWO LIAR parties that have done absolutely NOTHING for the people of this country , while raking in HUGE amounts of LOBBY DOLLARS that directly influence their representation?,,,,,,The Republicans got us off into TWO lie wars..WITH the support of the Democratic party,,,,the lie wars cost this country 10 BILLION dollars a month,,,WASTED. Supporters of the wars say "We MUST WIN" I ask...WHAT constitutes WINNING? there is NOTHING to win,,,,Killing everyone over there WILL NOT accomplish ANYTHING ,,,,,Those people DON'T want us there it is very simple,,,it is THEIR country NOT ours,,,,,,,, How do you people think Americans would react if the situation were reversed and WE were the country INVADED for POLITICAL PURPOSES?

What our government is doing is NOT National security, it is ALL a very evil plan to strip the people of their rights, Washington does NOT represent the people of this country ,Both parties have become legislative prostitutes who have sold out the people for personal and party profit, Voters need to vote out ALL incumbents and replace them with ALL independents, the power of the two LIAR parties MUST be broken, before they completely destroy this country. The LOBBY ROBBERY that is taking place has got to be stopped,,,,,the bailouts AND the stimulus programs are NOTHING BUT ,,,"Taxation Without Representation",,,,the VERY same reason this country fought a revolution in the first place,,,or has Washington forgotten?

Obama could care less about civil rights, wars, or the Constitution. His only gripe was that Bush/Cheney was in power. He had no moral problem with their police state tactics and even fact supports them. Some "change"....

Transparency promise? Forget about it. Keep it up, libs. Republicans will be sweeping the election next year.

National Security will be ocmpromised forever if vital information are forced to be revealed in the course of prosecution. Reporters don't always understand the complicated nature of intelligence which requires cooperation and sacrifices of various parties. In this sense, wiretapping plays a extremely vital role to understand and prepare countermeasures on possible plots of enemy forces.

"When is the press going to judge President Obama by what he does and not taint him with the misdeeds of Bush?"

Perhaps when Obama stops invoking the specter of President Bush at every turn.

Barack Obama and Eric Holder were absolutely full of crap, are full of crap and will be full of crap.

Great work, Jake. You are about the only real reporter left. The rest are the lapdog media.

I for one I'm happy this is happening. It'll make it that much easier for the republicans to keep America safe when we retake the white house.Keep up the good work libs.

CHANGE!!

The Obama administration invoked the controversial "state secrets" privilege again for Area 51.

So no open house at Groom Lake this year.

Another Bush policy adopted.

Well, this is a shocker.

Obama reneging again, I mean.

Has he kept ANY campaign promises at all?

Has anyone noticed that this President made a whole lot of promises when campaigning that are just flat out not happening?

There was a lot of talk about transparency and about the only thing that has "changed" here is that the names have changed. The way things are done as still the same.

I really don't care about this particular position and, frankly, it probably makes sense. It made sense for Bush and I don't disagree that there are things that are in our National interests to not disclose. But, if the deal is that there is going to be some kind of major change and everything remains the same - well, its noteworthy.

It is curious to me that the faithful are so ready to give this President a pass on his promises broken.

Where is the outrage about lying? If I am angry over the way things are done in Washington and I enthusiastically vote for a guy that promises change and the guy doesn't deliver change it seems to me that there is some duping going on. If it were me I might be a little pi**ed about it. Instead the faithful remain silent - it is an interesting double standard.

Perhaps the musician known as 'Sting' has a point that is less than obvious. Perhaps God sent the current POTUS to demonstrate to America that we, the people, are this country and need not permit the machinations of politicians of any stripe.

Yeah, the Bush Administration invoked State Secrets more than any other Administration-because we've never had more people so craven for political power that they'd be willing to endanger American lives to obtain it. Just as Code Pink now finds that those in Iraq and Afghanistan fear our leaving far more than our presence and have now decided to "reconsider" their protests which lays bare that they were never really protesting the war-they were protesting a Republican in the White House. What vapid, manipulating, and yes, I'll say it since they have had no compunction about using the term--UNAMERICAN--fools the Dems and the left have become.

Presidents are supposed to grow and mature in office, and to pay attention to facts they didn't know before. Of course Obama is going to do the same. It's his job to ignore the ignorant uncaring Left.

During his campaign Obama claimed that the Patriot Act was a violation of the Fourth Amendment. Now he claims it’s not. Obama claimed that Bush’s use of State Secrets Privilege was an abuse of power. Now he uses it. He promised “transparency in government”. We’re seeing a lot of wool over our eyes.

According to Obama’s own campaign speeches, he is now abusing power and violating the Fourth Amendment. This would be funny if it wasn’t too scary for Halloween.

There are some things that are State secrets. Just because Bush abused it does not mean that President Obama is or will. When is the press going to judge President Obama by what he does and not taint him with the misdeeds of Bush. It is really getting tiresome. The right thinks that the press is liberal , but they are far from it . They are corporatist that do nothing except tell every story from a negative perspective and try to get the people that voted fro the President to mistrust him. Well it won't work and it only confirms that from the left or the right the press can not be trusted.