Obama Reneges on Justice for Torture Victims, Embraces Bush Secrecy Doctrine

by Valtin Mon Feb 09, 2009 at 10:29:56 PM PST

Today, new Attorney General Eric Holder's Justice Department embraced Bush administration claims of "state secrets" in the ACLU lawsuit against Boeing subsidiary Jeppesen DataPlan for its role in Bush's extraordinary rendition program. Jeppesen's involvement in the "torture flights" of an undetermined number of terror suspect abductees, making a tidy profit for themselves in the meantime.

The New York Times reported on how the deal went down in San Francisco earlier today:

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During the campaign, Mr. Obama harshly criticized the Bush administration’s treatment of detainees, and he has broken with that administration on questions like whether to keep open the prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. But a government lawyer, Douglas N. Letter, made the same state-secrets argument on Monday, startling several judges on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

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I have two Obama t-shirts. A couple of more stories like this one, and I'll be burning one of them. And unfortunately a couple of days ago Crimbrary posted a story that praised Leon Panetta for rejecting "extraordinary rendition" Crimbray should have waited a day. The next day the wingnuts on the confirmation panel made Panetta eat most of his words. Which he did willingly. Tom