{"id":2748,"date":"2009-04-10T09:39:08","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T13:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=2748"},"modified":"2009-04-10T09:39:08","modified_gmt":"2009-04-10T13:39:08","slug":"obama-v-obama-on-secrecy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2009\/04\/10\/obama-v-obama-on-secrecy\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama v. Obama on Secrecy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Sargent catches <a href=\"http:\/\/theplumline.whorunsgov.com\/president-obama\/obamas-campaign-web-site-still-blasts-bush-legal-tactic-obama-is-now-using\/?ref=fp1\">this gem<\/a> &#8211; Obama&#8217;s campaign site slamming the same Bush Admin secrecy policies that now he appears willing to keep.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Sargent further notes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This underscores what a major turnabout this is and how difficult it will be for the Obama administration to justify this politically going forward. Yesterday White House spokesman <a href=\"http:\/\/whorunsgov.com\/Profiles\/Robert_Gibbs\"> Robert Gibbs<\/a> visibly struggled as he <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview ('\/outbound\/www.huffingtonpost.com');\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/04\/09\/gibbs-obama-stands-by-doj_n_185300.html\"> defended the current use<\/a> of the state secrets privilege while saying Obama still condemns Bush\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s use of it.<\/p>\n<p>This also creates a major political dilemma for some Democratic Senators, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/whorunsgov.com\/Profiles\/Russell_Feingold\"> Russ Feingold<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/whorunsgov.com\/Profiles\/Patrick_J._Leahy\"> Patrick Leahy<\/a>, who have <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview ('\/outbound\/www.salon.com');\" href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/opinion\/greenwald\/2009\/02\/12\/state_secrets\/\"> aggressively criticized<\/a> use of the state secrets privilege but have been largely silent on Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s current use of it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The public heat needs to be turned up on all involved.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;Oh, that was just a campaign line&#8221; is not an acceptable excuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Sargent catches this gem &#8211; Obama&#8217;s campaign site slamming the same Bush Admin secrecy policies that now he appears willing to keep.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Sargent further notes: This underscores what a major turnabout this is and how difficult it will be for the Obama administration to justify this politically going forward. Yesterday White House spokesman Robert [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[213,215,126,214,212],"class_list":["post-2748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-politics","tag-feingold","tag-leahy","tag-obama","tag-secrecy","tag-state-secrets"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2748"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2750,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748\/revisions\/2750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}