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By Ronald Goldfarb | Saturday, February 21, 2009 | The Washington Post

“…When most people think of ‘state secrets,’ they no doubt envision military plans for troop movements in wartime or back-channel diplomatic maneuvering. But in fact, most claims of state secrets pertain not to the dramatic undercover actions of spy novels, but to civil matters. And thanks to a little-known, half-century-old case, the U.S. government has been able to use the state secrets defense with increasing frequency and marked success to prevent embarrassing information from coming to light….”…BS

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/20/AR2009022002167_pf.html