Obama and State Secrets? Shhh…

By Clint Hendler, Columbia Journalism Review

Obama, like Bush, decides to limit what the courts and the people can know about warrantless wiretapping. Isn’t that a big story?

Not just yet.

On April 3, the Holder Justice Department filed arguments in Jewel v. National Security Agency, a lawsuit being waged by the Electronic Frontier Foundation on behalf of five people who claim that their constitutional rights were abridged when they were subjected to the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program.

Related Issues: NSA Spying

Related Cases: Jewel v. NSA

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