Change we can BELIEVE in? What OBAMA has SAID and what OBAMA has DONE

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Citing the Obama administration’s evocation of the state secrets privilege, a divided federal appeals court agreed Wednesday to toss a lawsuit against a Boeing subsidiary accused of helping the CIA transport detainees to secret foreign prisons where they allegedly were tortured.

The outcome underscores that, at least insofar as the state secrets privilege is concerned, President Barack Obama has taken the same path of his predecessor, despite claims he would limit his use of the privilege. President Obama has continued to invoke the privilege in cases left over from the Bush administration, and has argued for it in newer cases as well.