I voted for Obama primarily because I saw him as an alternative to the Bush administrations hiding behind ‘state secrets’ the last eight years.
He campaigned on the fact that a big problem (one of three listed on his website) with the country was: “Secrecy Dominates Government Actions: The Bush administration has ignored public disclosure rules and has invoked a legal tool known as the “state secrets” privilege more than any other previous administration to get cases thrown out of civil court.”
Now his DOJ have the balls to make the argument “the Government can never be sued for surveillance that violates federal privacy statutes”.
Fuck that hypocrite, fuck his AG that doesn’t even believe in the Bill of Rights, and dammit fuck myself for believing he actually wanted to change something that mattered.