Standing Up to the Imperial Presidency

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House Democrats, led by Barney Frank, are finally standing up against the Obama administration’s support for the Detainee Photographic Records Protection Act of 2009 — an Orwellian amendment that would retroactively bypass FOIA and allow the administration to unilaterally block the release of photos of detainee treatment with no justification except their own say so.  Good.  Nick Baumann has more.

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