http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2009/feb/obama-defends-bush-secrecy-ruleBreaking a crucial campaign promise of offering Americans unprecedented government transparency, Barack Obama's Justice Department has defended a Bush Administration secrecy rule in federal court.
Government lawyers actually invoked the same controversial "state secrets privilege" used by George W. Bush to argue that a lawsuit brought on behalf of five terrorism suspects should not proceed because disclosing the evidence would harm national security.
Throughout his presidential campaign Obama harshly criticized the measure he now defends and vowed to reverse it. In fact, his infamous "Plan to Change Washington" specifically addressed Bush's states secret privilege as a legal tool to get cases thrown out of civil court.

