For awhile there all I did was scoff at the punditocracy during the first few weeks of the Obama Administration when they tried to assert that he and Bush were “just the same”. Well, let’s be real, I scoff at the punditocracy constantly for many many reasons. And, they are just plain wrong and trying to draw false equivalences for the most part.
However, Obama isn’t doing himself any favors when he does do some of the same abusive, egregious crap that Bush did. Rafe sums it up nicely:
Dan Froomkin explains, in simple terms, the State Secrets Privilege today. This is a privilege the government should not be allowed to assert, and the Obama administration is perpetuating all of the Bush administration’s worst abuses of it. There’s no excuse for doing so, and I think it’s incumbent most upon those who supported Obama’s Presidential campaign to express our displeasure on this issue.
