Now what were you liberals saying about wiretaps?
The Obama administration is again invoking government secrecy in defending the Bush administration’s wiretapping program, this time against a lawsuit by AT&T customers who claim federal agents illegally intercepted their phone calls and gained access to their records.
Disclosure of the information sought by the customers, “which concerns how the United States seeks to detect and prevent terrorist attacks, would cause exceptionally grave harm to national security,” Justice Department lawyers said in papers filed Friday in San Francisco.
Kevin Bankston of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a lawyer for the customers, said Monday the filing was disappointing in light of the Obama presidential campaign’s “unceasing criticism of Bush-era secrecy and promise for more transparency.”
Yeah. No kidding.
Kudos to President Obama for having at least some sense of national security – but minus a million points for irresponsibly buying into the kook left talking points about signals intelligence during the campaign.
Naturally, you liberals out there are going to call for Obama’s impeachment. Right?
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