Obama's Justice Department backs Bush secrecy on renditions suit

The Raw Story | Obama's Justice Department backs Bush secrecy on renditions suit: "'Eric Holder’s Justice Department stood up in court today and said that it would continue the Bush policy of invoking state secrets to hide the reprehensible history of torture, rendition and the most grievous human rights violations committed by the American government,' Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director of the ACLU, said in the same release. 'This is not change. This is definitely more of the same. Candidate Obama ran on a platform that would reform the abuse of state secrets, but President Obama’s Justice Department has disappointingly reneged on that important civil liberties issue. If this is a harbinger of things to come, it will be a long and arduous road to give us back an America we can be proud of again.'"