Obama Continues Secret Wiretaps

Another Bush policy continues in the Obama Administration:

President Barack Obama invoked “state secrets” to prevent a court from reviewing the legality of the National Security Agency’s warantless wiretapping program, moving late Friday to have a lawsuit that challenged the program dismissed.

The move — which holds that information surrounding the massive eavesdropping program should be kept from the public because of its sensitivity — follows an earlier decision in March to block handover of documents relating to the Bush Administration’s decision to spy on a charity. The arguments also mirror the Bush Administration’s efforts to dismiss an earlier suit against AT&T.

Once again the lefties are let down by Obama. They had hoped to end the "evil" wiretapping program once hope and change took office. But, as Dick Cheney predicted before Obama took office, Obama is finding that some of the executive power that the Bush administration wielded is a pretty nice thing to have. They're no gonna give that up.