[privacy] N.J. Prosecutors Seek Phone Co. Records Against Federal Lawsuit

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

Via The Boston Globe (AP).

[snip]

New Jersey has the right to obtain information about a federal domestic
surveillance program because that program is no longer a secret, the
state argued in response to federal efforts to quash its investigation.

The Justice Department wants to throw "an impenetrable cloak insulating
the federal government's domestic surveillance activities from all
judicial scrutiny," acting New Jersey Attorney General Ann Milgram said
in a statement Monday.

New Jersey prosecutors subpoenaed 10 phone companies in May because of
suspicion that state consumer protection laws may have been violated if
phone companies were turning over records to the National Security Agency.

The federal government sued the New Jersey attorney general's office in
federal court June 14, claiming compliance with the state's subpoenas
or even acknowledging the existence of such a program would threaten
national security.

[snip]

More:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/maine/articles/2006/09/11/nj_prosecutors_seek_phone_co_records_against_federal_lawsuit/

- ferg


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