Ethics

Badass Quote of the Day

By Ed Brayton

This may be the single best description of the reality of the Bush/Obama doctrine of the state secrets privilege, which says that the moment the executive branch says that a given subject is a secret, the courts must immediately adjourn the case and refuse to hear any further arguments on the matter.

This is the opening statement in an ACLU brief filed in the Mohamed v. Jeppesen Dataplan case, brought by five men who were tortured after our government flew them to other countries and turned them over specifically for that purpose (apparently, the Bush administration was outsourcing torture at the same time they were engaging in it themselves for some reason):

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on December 22, 2009 (boomark / email).