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According to Glenn Greenwald, the Obama DOJ is now taking the legal stance that if the President makes something “classified information”, even if it may be a crime committed by him, it cannot be investigated because, he is the ultimate power. In an ongoing case, Al-Haramaim Islamic Foundation v. Obama (leftover from the Bush administration), the Obama legal team filed a brief on Friday indicating that the Judicial Branch may not override the Executive Branch when they refused to let the plaintiff have access to “mysterious document” allegedly containing the wiretapping logs.

Both the Bush and Obama Administration claim the information is “classified.” Thus you have an “imperial Presidency”, completely above the law, because he can classify whatever he wants as “classified” and no one can have access to it. This, according to empty wheel.firedoglake, is, in essence, the Cheney-Addington principle, but it seems to be crumbling. Thus, for those who thought they would find a more transparent administration now, it seems more of the same.

The Appeals Court gave the presiding judge, Judge Walker, the right “to review the wiretap log that may show al-Haramain may, or may not, have been illegally wiretapped.” However, within hours, the Obama DOJ was back appealing that decision. It’s important to understand that in 2004, the U.S. Treasury designated that “charity” as one that supported terrorism, specifically Al-Queda.

Apparently, “the big question is whether the Obama/Dead-Ender Administration believes that simply announcing that al-Haramain has a case (that they were wiretapped illegally, but constitutes classified information), can trump the Judicial branch of the government.” Thus, the Obama team wants to side with al-Haranaim in saying
that Bush overstepped his authority, by ordering a warrant-less wiretap. Thus they would be denying the Federal Judge (Walker) an opportunity to make that determination himself by seeing the “classified wiretapped logs.”

If you examine the case a little more thoroughly, I think you will understand that it really has to do with assuring that the Obama Administration can “trump” the Judicial Branch of the government any time it wants in the future.

This would mean, for example, that in any of the pending cases against Obama concerning his birth documents, college records, or medical records, to confirm his “natural born citizenship”, those can be designated by Obama as “classified” information and thus inaccessible to the Judicial Branch for examination. Therefore, he would be putting himself completely “above the law.”
Even Hans Vogel at Pravda believes “it looks like he (Obama) is a second George W. Bush…some, however, believe he may be another Gorbachev, presiding over the dissolution of the US into a number of smaller states. It seems under the surface, disintegration has already set in, with major states like California and Texas having made the first steps on the road towards full autonomy.”