President Barack Obama has drawn praise, but his use of the “state secrets” privilege to squash lawsuits on torture and surveillance is drawing mounting opposition....
News outlets proclaimed the end of an era earlier this month as the Justice Department filed a brief in federal court that dropped the use of the term "enemy combatant" from its description of those who may legally be detained at Guantánamo Bay.
For the past eight years, Democratic members of Congress have been issuing pleas for greater transparency, accountability, and a return to the rule of law....
"The very core of liberty secured by our Anglo-Saxon system of separated powers has been freedom from indefinite imprisonment at the will of the Executive," or so they (Justice Scalia) say.
Barry Siegel, Pulitzer-Prize winning former national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times and author of Claim of Privilege, weighs in on the the case.
