Disappointing

From SFGate, we read:

(02-09) 17:30 PST SAN FRANCISCO — President Obama’s Justice Department signaled in a San Francisco courtroom Monday that the change in administrations has not changed the government’s position on secrecy and the rights of foreign prisoners – and that lawsuits by alleged victims of CIA kidnappings and torture must be dismissed on national security grounds.

I truly hope this will change; it’s a given that the Obama administration has not been in office long, and so it is not surprising that they are following practices of the Bush administration. They need to look things over and make sure the changes they want to put into place are for the better. However, I hoped that we would get a better indication than this that human rights ignored by the Bush administration would be validated by the Obama administration.