Obama Administration Endorses Continued Spying on Americans -- Justice Department Moves to Squash NSA Spying Suits

"Since fatuously declaring his to be a 'change' administration, President Barack Obama has quickly donned the blood-spattered mantle of state secrecy and executive privilege worn by the Bush regime.

"On Friday April 3, the Department of Justice filed a motion to dismiss one of the Electronic Frontier Foundation's (EFF) landmark lawsuits against illegal spying by the National Security Agency (NSA)."

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"Arguments in San Francisco federal district court by U.S. Attorneys have been described by constitutional law experts as being 'worse than Bush.' In their motion to dismiss Jewell, the Obama administration cited the same perverse logic of the previous regime: that the state secrets privilege requires the court to dismiss the issue 'out of hand.'"