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"A Crack in the Wall of Secrecy"

"A Crack in the Wall of Secrecy": The New York Times today contains an editorial that begins, "President Obama's release last week of four graphic torture memos written by the Bush Justice Department was an essential step toward re-establishing the rule of law. It has had another positive, if unintended, result. The disclosure undermined a flimsy claim of state secrets -- first made by the Bush administration and still being pressed by the Obama Justice Department -- to deny a day in court to five victims of the extraordinary rendition program, under which foreigners were abducted and sent to be tortured in other countries."

Full post as published by How Appealing on April 26, 2009 (boomark / email).