Thursday
Jul312008
ACLU: Executive privilege "mutated"
Steven Shapiro of the American Civil Liberties Union says the state secrets privilege has mutated from a rule protecting genuine security interests to an alternative form of immunity in which violators of the Constitution receive dismissed cases, preventing prosecution against acts of torture and unlawful surveillance. (0:58)
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