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Obama's Secret Laws?

By Big Tent Democrat

Glenn Greenwald gets to the heart of today's big issue - whether President Obama will release the Bush torture memos:

I want to underscore one vital point about this controversy that is continuously overlooked and will be undoubtedly distorted today in the event of non-disclosure: these documents are not intelligence documents. They are legal documents and, more specifically, they constitute what can only be described as secret law under which the U.S. has been governed during the Bush era. Thus, the question posed by the release of these OLC memos is not whether Obama will release to the public classified intelligence programs. The question is whether he will release to the public the legal doctrines under which the U.S. Government conducted itself regarding interrogation techniques he claims are no longer used.

Will President Obama have secret laws on torture? That's the issue today.

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Full post as published by TalkLeft on April 16, 2009 (boomark / email).