All in the Name of National Security (Nadelhoffer)

Over at The Nation, Michael Ratner has an interesting piece on the recent efforts by Bush and Co. to keep the courts from reviewing their illegal spying programs.  These efforts are nearly always based upon misguided yet predictable appeals to the State Secrets Privilege--appeals that represent the attempt on the part of the Bushies to circumvent any judicial oversight whatsoever.  Bush essentially wants a carte blanche to do whatever he sees fit in the name of national security.  Hopefully Congress and the courts will not continue to give it to him.