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: Dispatches from the Culture WarsObama's Meaningless New State Secrets Policy
By Ed Brayton
Several months after being promised a new policy regarding the state secrets privilege (SSP) from the Obama administration "in a matter of days,", the new policy is out. Unfortunately, it changes little that actually matters. All of the changes are to the process by which the administration will determine when to invoke the SSP, not to how broadly or narrowly they will argue for the application of that privilege in court.
The basic change is that they will set up a panel to review all cases where the SSP might be invoked, called the State Secrets Review Committee, within the DOJ. The committee will be made up of "senior Department officials" who will review any request by another DOJ official to invoke the SSP. They would then make recommendations to the Attorney General, who must sign off on the use of the privilege.
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