February 11, 2009 9:03AM # Meet the New Boss… By [David Rittgers](https://www.cato.org/people/david-rittgers) --- SHARE On Tuesday the Obama administration changed tunes from his campaign rhetoric and did nothing to change the government’s position on the [State Secrets Privilege](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Secrets_Privilege). A government lawyer [told the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit](http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/10/us/10torture.html?scp=1&sq=state%20secret&st=cse) that the government was continuing to assert the controversial defense to a civil suit arising from the extraordinary rendition program. [Glenn Greenwald](http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/02/09/state_secrets/index.html) and [David Luban](http://balkin.blogspot.com/2009/02/you-cover-it-up-you-own-it.html) have taken the Obama administration to task. Read some more [here](http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2009/02/dear-obama-administration.html) and a [word](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=3145) from my colleague [Tim Lynch](https://www.cato.org/people/timothy-lynch). ##### Related Tags [Constitutional Law](https://www.cato.org/constitutional-law), [Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies](https://www.cato.org/robert-levy-center-constitutional-studies) [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).