The court makes short work of the Obama administration's invocation of States Secrets to quash legal actions against the government:
"According to the government's theory, the judiciary should effectively cordon off all secret government actions from judicial scrutiny, immunizing the CIA and its partners from the demands and limits of the law."
The upshot of this is that the court has (re-)affirmed that the only legitimate use of the State's Secrets privelege is for individual pieces of evidence which are evaluated by the courts.
A stirring victory for government accountability and transparency.
As always, Glenn has more.
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