Grading Obama's first 100 days is all the rage with the kiddies, and Russ Feingold has gotten into the act, issuing a report card on Obama's efforts to "restore the rule of law." Feingold's grades are mostly positive especially when it comes to general issues of transparency, but when it gets to government secrecy on national security issues -- specifically the administration's abuse of the state-secrets privilege to block judicial scrutiny of things like torture and warrantless surveillance, Feingold gives Obama a "D."
If you ask the Brennan Center, Feingold's being generous. While also largely positive, when it came to the state-secrets privilege, they gave the president a big fat "F."
-- A. Serwer
