Monthly Archive: May 2011

May
09

Government Lies to Cover Up Secrets in Surveillance Case

The federal government’s use of secrecy and deception in the name of national security reached a new low last week, when Obama administration lawyers argued that they had the right to lie to a federal court in the name of national security by denying even the fact that they were keeping secret records about a group of Southern California residents.

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