Focus (Forum & Focus)
Jan. 13, 2009
State Secrets Privilege at Odds With Government's Moral Obligations
It's clear that the Bush administration frequently used the state secrets privilege and the executive privilege simply to protect against disclosure of politically embarrassing facts, writes Michael Willemsen. - Forum Column
FORUM COLUMN
By Michael Willemsen A few days ago I was reading articles on China and Russia. The article about China was titled "Don't Look Back." It told that although the Chinese government has acknowledged that shoddy construction was responsible for thousands of deaths in the recent earthquake, it discourages any inquiry into how this came about and who was responsible. Anyone who persists in asking such embarrassing questions is likely to go ...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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