"Utmost deference"

Via den orange satan, her et afskrift fra Wireds liveblogging af to retssager vedr. aflytning:

Judge Harry Pregerson suggests the government is asking the courts to "rubber stamp" the government's claim that state secrets are at risk "Who decides whether something is a state secret or not? ... We have to take the word of the members of the executive branch that something is a state secret?"

Garre counters that the courts should give "utmost deference" to the Bush administration.

Judge Pregerson: "What does utmost deference mean? Bow to it?"

Andetsteds: Department of Homeland Security får nu lov til at bruge USAs spionsatelliter mod USA.

Og derfor kan jeg ikke tage Berman alvorligt, når han - som amerikaner - diskuterer det totalitære som noget der kun hører venstrefløjen og islam til. Physician, heal thyself.

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