Or, SS, if you will
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2009/11/01/state_secrets/index.html
very interesting, but when you're hiding your legality from the courts because of national security, doesn't it beg the question that you're harming your country by not going through the judicial system to begin with?
what is more important, national security or internal security?!

Incredibly disappointing.

And I never regretted voting for Nader.

If this applies to the President it should apply to everyone.
"Stop right there criminal scum! Return the stolen goods or it's off to jail."
"Sorry, it's a secret you shouldn't know about."
"Oh okay, off you go then."

I'm surprised anyone expected otherwise. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

Silly Weclock, the law is for plebs.

I once open-mouth kissed a horse.
Oh. Damn. I misinterpretted the title. Just go back and DON'T read that.

I can well understand the value of maintaining operational secrecy in order to protect intelligence operations... unfortunately, when "State Secrecy" has been used as an excuse to hide government activities in the past, it has generally been the case that those activities were things that the American public would not approve of, as was the case with the entire Dulles administration of the CIA.
Then again, we're talking about the NSA here. Their mission is surveillance only; no radical counterintelligence operations to overthrow governments are going on here (hopefully).
I find myself wondering just what Obama knows about the NSA that needs to be kept quiet... Assuming that he wasn't simply lying during his election campaign, whatever he's learned about the widely condemned program during his time as president must be huge if he's now insisting that it must remain under wraps.
In any case, unlike this blog writer, I'm not concerned that this will set a precedent for allowing presidents to commit crimes under the banner of State secrecy. That precedent was already set as far back as the Truman presidency, perhaps earlier. Whether or not an executive with as much power as the Prez of the USA will exercise his authority in that way is entirely a matter of personal preference.