Reply #8: SHHH! [View All]

[Orwellian_Ghost]

Here's an interesting comment from Greenwald's blog:

Glenn, in that filing, see footnote 8 on page 6.

There the Obama DOJ attempts to slip one by the Court, and US, by explaining the new Obama State Secrets Privilege invocation policy and describing the individual requirements that must be met before they do so with this:

...Section 1.C of the Department’s policy places further limitations on the Government’s defense of a state secrets privilege assertion, for example, by prohibiting such invocations for the purpose of concealing violations of the law or to prevent embarrassment to the Government. Id. § 1.C...

The Obama DOJ claims in the footnote to have met the requirements of Section 1.A, and to have met the requirements of Section 1.B.

But notice that while they describe the requirements of Section 1.C above, nowhere to they assert that they've met those very requirements.

By doing so, the Obama DOJ makes abundantly clear, that it in fact cannot meet the requirements of Section 1.C., and in fact this very state secrets privilege invocation is meant "for the purpose of concealing violations of the law or to prevent embarrassment to the Government".