[privacy] Justice Department Sues New Jersey over NSA Data

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via ABC News' "The Blotter".

[snip]

The Justice Department has sued the state of New Jersey in a lawsuit
against State Attorney General Zulima Farber and her deputy Cathleen
O'Donnell for their efforts to subpoena telephone companies to obtain
NSA call history data.

The suit, filed late Wednesday in federal court in Trenton, relates to
the State Attorney General sending subpoenas to the phone companies in
order to obtain records and documents relating to the data provided to
the NSA. The Justice suit seeks an injunction from the U.S. District
Court in Trenton to ensure that the subpoenas from the Attorney General
are not enforced. Responses to the subpoenas are due by today.

The Justice Department suit notes that the New Jersey subpoenas "seek
disclosure of matters with respect to which the Director of National
Intelligence has determined that disclosure…would improperly reveal
intelligence sources and methods."

"The United States will be irreparably harmed if the carrier defendants
are permitted or are required to disclose sensitive and classified
information to the defendants in response to the subpoenas," the suit says.

[snip]

More:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/06/justice_departm.html

- ferg


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