Wednesday, September 23, 2009

State Secrets Usage Update

It will now be harder for the government entities to invoke the state secrets privilege if they're found to be doing so in order to “conceal violations of the law, inefficiency or administrative error” or to “prevent embarrassment.”


http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/23/us/politics/23secrets.html?_r=1&emc=tnt&tntemail1=y