Michael Rubin
In World War II we fought the Nazis, and during the Cold War we fought the Communists. Today, however, we fight wars but are too constrained by political correctness to even set the enemy.When the Obama administration released its National Strategy for Counterterrorism (NSCT) last month, it acknowledged that there was an ideological component to terrorism, but it refused to define it.
The State Secrets Privilege: Preventing the Disclosure of Sensitive National Security Information During Civil Litigation (PDF)
Source:Congressional Research Service (via Federation of American Scientists)
The state secrets privilege is a judicially created evidentiary privilege that allows the union authorities to resist court-ordered disclosure of data during litigation if there is a reasonable risk that such disclosure would damage the internal certificate of the United States.
