Ethics

Obama Continues to Fight Transparency on Torture

By Ed Brayton

The San Francisco Chronicle reports on the many ways the Obama administration continues to fight both transparency and accountability for torture that took place under the Bush administration. First, by appealing the ruling in the Jeppesen Dataplan case that rejected their assertion of the broadest possible reading of the state secrets privilege (SSP):

The administration has asked a federal appeals court in San Francisco to reconsider its ruling allowing Binyam Mohamed and four other former or current prisoners to sue a Bay Area company for allegedly flying them to overseas torture chambers for the CIA.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on August 13, 2009 (boomark / email).