Obama DOJ’s New Abuse of State-Secrets Privilege Revealed

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/14/ongoing-abuse-state-secrets-privilege/

by t0dd • 12 years ago

80 11 12 years ago

He is an accomplished liar. Catch him if you can.

itbeho• 12 years ago

A by-product of all the big government so many people seem enamored with lately: big bureaucracy. Expect more nameless and blameless officials "checking the wrong box" in the future.

superuser2• 12 years ago

Have you ever dealt with a large private health insurance, telecom, airline, banking, or other company?

They don't care about you either unless you're large enough that losing your business would actually matter. They don't care about you at all if it's impossible to lose your business (i.e. employer-provided health insurance, cable companies).

This is a ridiculous claim.

vishaldpatel2• 12 years ago

The US gov't is much bigger than all these corps combined. And they have multiple police forces. Oh, whats that? You don't like our service? Too bad, because there's no other game in town. And no, you're not allowed to disrupt the government.

pdeuchler• 12 years ago

This sounds like a knee-jerk reaction to someone talking down on "big government".

The choice between "big government" and "big business" is a false dichotomy, if that's what you're getting at.

garfelnagel• 12 years ago

Not ridiculous at all: a company can't send an armed drone after you. Or a soldier. Or an FBI agent. Get the drift?

LocalPCGuy• 12 years ago

Why is this on Hacker News?

sitkack• 12 years ago

Holder claims that exposing the reason for denial of entry to the US

"could reasonably be expected to cause significant harm to national security."

Which on the face of it is true, because:

The bogus national security claims invoked were even more outrageous because they were used to continue the persecution of someone the government knew to be innocent.

Exposing the truth makes us look bad. Making us look bad puts our bullshit, freedom harming programs at risk. We serve those programs, those programs are the most important thing (and not looking bad).

Obama DOJ’s New Abuse of State-Secrets Privilege Revealed

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