Yesterday a federal judge in San Francisco refused to dismiss the Electronic Frontier Foundation's suit against AT&T over its participation in the NSA's warrantless surveillance program. The Bush administration had argued that allowing the case to proceed would threaten national security. "The government has opened the door for judicial inquiry by publicly confirming and denying material information about its monitoring of communications content," U.S. District Judge Vaughn R. Walker wrote. "Because of the public disclosures by the government and AT&T, the court cannot conclude that merely maintaining this action creates a 'reasonable danger' of harming national security."
Eavesdropping Suit Stays Alive
Comments to "Eavesdropping Suit Stays Alive":
highnumber | July 21, 2006, 2:19pm | #
Shouldn't the gold go to the post that gets more comments?and right now, this one is winning.
The FISA judges were barred from scoring this event due to a conflict of interest.
highnumber | July 21, 2006, 3:20pm | #
Um, very funny thoreau. I read it twice before I got it.(I am posting this mostly because we are falling behind. The other thread figured out the competition.)
Do I understand this correctly? Did the judge say, "Anything the government does is legal, as long as they deny doing it"?