Monster

That understanding is not possible without revealing to the very adversaries we are trying to defeat what we know about them and how we are proceeding to stop them.” First of all, the administration needs to stop getting their legal advice fromcartoonists. Secondly, as Henry Lanman pointed out in Slate, this is becoming a bad habit: if this tactic persists—if the administration continues to broadly assert this privilege and courts continue to accept it—the administration will have succeeded in

[…] First of all, the administration needs to stop getting their legal advice from cartoonists. Secondly, as Henry Lanman pointed out in Slate, this is becoming a bad habit: if this tactic persists—if the administration continues to broadly assert this privilege and courts continue to accept it—the administration will have succeeded in creating an insurmountable immunity that can be invoked against pretty much any legal claim that the “war on terror” violates the law. The standard and winning response to any plaintiff who asserted such charges would be, quite simply, that it’s a secret. […]