Tapper Presses Gibbs On State Secrets

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Jake Tapper of ABC News asked White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs today about a subject we’ve been writing about lately — the administration’s several invocations of the state secrets privilege, despite Barack Obama’s criticism, as a presidential candidate last year, of President Bush’s use of the privilege.

In response, Gibbs talked about the need to balance transparency with the need to protect national security.

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