Glenn Greenwald of Salon.com has done an excellent job over the last nine years reporting on Bush Administration and now Obama Administration abuses of power. No, that's not a typo. On Friday, the Obama Justice Department sought to block review by the courts of the Bush Administration NSA domestic spying program that continues to sweep up the e-mail and telephone communications of thousands of law-abiding Americans. The Obama Administration asserts that any court review of the domestic surveillance program would violate "state secrets" and endanger "national security." These are the same arguments that the Bush Administration made repeatedly, but as Mr. Greenwald points out, both Senator Obama and Candidate Obama condemned those arguments. Indeed, Obama's own Justice Department appeared to be moving toward increased transparency just six weeks ago.
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2009/11/01/state_secrets/index.html
Ben Wizner of the national ACLU calls it "immunity from accountability." The ACLU is working in the courts and the Congress to restoring the rule of law through accountability. Take action here:
http://www.aclu.org/accountability/
This is less about our clients and more about who we are as a nation and a people. Accountability for torture truly is, as the ACLU website says, "a legal, political, and moral imperative."