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Wanna know a secret (law)?

Common Dreams
by Sean Gonsalves

05/20/08

We’re talking everything from secret interpretations of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and opinions from the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) to secret Presidential directives and transportation security orders. And don’t let the word ‘opinion’ throw you off. If, for example, they’re ‘opinions’ issued by the OLC — like the now infamous Yoo torture memos — those kind of ‘opinions’ are binding on the executive branch. So, while the Washington press heavy-hitters were analyzing flag pins and pastors, a Judiciary subcommittee hearing was held on ‘Secret Law and the Threat to Democratic and Accountable Government.’ Among the half-dozen or so witnesses to testify was the director of the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists, Steven Aftergood — one of the nation’s preeminent authorities on secret law. What should have been a top-story across the country was rendered invisible by a tsunami of triviality....

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/20/9070/


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