Reply #61: If there is a legal category for state secrets

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Then any administration may invoke it where the standards apply.

This is faux outrage - if the administration uses a law, it is obeying the law. If the law had no exceptions it would be one thing, but if that law has categories of exception, there is nothing wrong with the president invoking it. Aggrieved parties may have legal recourse.

Being for transparency doesn't mean that the President seeks to let everything out - there are State Secrets for a reason. Any such item can come up for question.

Things like this are not in black and white or either/or - leave that stupidity to the right wingers.