White House Invokes "State Secrets", Again!

One thing we can be sure of is that Bush does not like checks and balances. It seems lately that anytime someone wants to investigate Bush, or the agencies that he has ordered to break the law, we hear how it would hurt the war on terror. I'm surprised they haven't been able to find a way to connect abortion and gay marriage to the "War on terrorism"!

(AP/Yahoo)The Bush administration has asked federal judges in New York and Michigan to dismiss a pair of lawsuits filed over the National Security Agency's domestic eavesdropping program, saying litigating them would jeopardize state secrets.
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National Intelligence Director John Negroponte invoked the state secrets privilege on behalf of the administration, writing that disclosure of such information would cause "exceptionally grave damage" to national security.

No one has said they want to make the information gathered on terrorists made public, but I think it is important to have some oversight. The Justice Department would like people to believe otherwise.

Justice Department attorneys said in their legal brief that the legality of the president's actions could only be properly judged by understanding "the specific threat facing the nation and the particular actions taken by the president to meet that threat."

"That understanding is not possible without revealing to the very adversaries we are trying to defeat what we know about them and how we are proceeding to stop them,"

In essence, the government would have you believe that stopping the NSA from spying on Americans without a warrant is going to lead to some document or documents with terrorists names and our militaries plans on it falling into the hands of Al Qaida. The sad thing is, there are people dumb enough to believe this!