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Legislation Introduced to End State Secrets Privilege Abuse

By Ed Brayton

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I missed this last week while I was making my whirlwind trip to Vegas. Several senators - Leahy, Specter, Feingold and Kennedy - introduced the State Secrets Protection Act. The bill, according to the senators, "provides guidance to federal courts considering cases in which the government has asserted the state secrets privilege." This was first introduced in the last session but was not passed. Here's a list of things the bill would do:

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Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on February 24, 2009 (boomark / email).

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