It looks like Joe Biden has done an about face on supporting the State Secrets bill now that he is the VP. I just really want to know why? What do they now know since they are able to see it? How bad is it? Who are they protecting? What did Bush do that is worth protecting? It is really discomforting to know that Obama and Joe are going to stall with this state secrets nonsense. I just can’t imagine they are doing it to protect the country and are more so doing it to keep from having to prosecute former Bush Admin officials and creating a partisan nightmare that will drag the country down at a time when we cant afford to give the GOP something to drive the focus of the country on.
Biden Mum On State Secrets Bill He Once Supported
Et tu, Joe?
Last year, while trying to win the Democratic nomination for president, Joe Biden co-sponsored a bill to restrict the use of the “state secrets privilege” by the Department of Justice. But today, asked by the Huffington Post for Biden’s current stance on the legislation, a spokesman for the vice president replied: “No comment on this from here.” That “no comment” follows a similar tight-lipped stance from the White House itself.
The bill was reintroduced in February by Senators Leahy, Feingold, Kennedy, and Specter, in response to the Obama administration’s use of the privilege in a wiretapping case. Earlier this month, the Justice Department asserted the privilege in a second wiretapping case, provoking outrage among progressives, and prompting Feingold to again express his concern over the issue.