I don't know about you, but I was pretty sure that an Obama administration would not defend as a state secret the fact that the Bush administration engaged in extraordinary rendition of suspected terrorists. I would have thought that, if the rendition were defensible, it would be defended without resorting to asserting that it is not even possible to discuss it in a court of law. It must be possible to defend it by defending the companies we hired to help us do the rendering (I'll pause here to let you ponder the fact that the verb "to render" has a more common usage meaning "to liquefy the fat" — how pleasant).
Apparently, despite assurances that an Obama administration would be more judicious in its assertion of the state secrets privilege than it's Darth Cheney-driven predecessor, that is not the case.
I'm pissed. I'm writing my representatives. I respectfully ask you to do the same.
If my country can't defend its behavior in court, I believe it doesn't matter what it is we claim to defend. We've become corrupt beyond repair.
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