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[privacy] NSA: We're Too Secret to Be Sued
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 08:07:37 GMT
Via The Baltimore Sun. [snip] A courtroom challenge to the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program would expose sensitive state secrets and should be thrown out, government lawyers told a federal judge yesterday. In making that sweeping assertion, lawyers employed the state secrets doctrine, an obscure tool that has been used by the Bush administration in 22 other instances - more than any other presidency - to squelch cases touching on intelligence practices. And it is virtually always a winning strategy, say legal scholars and attorneys who handle national security cases. [snip] More here: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/bal-te.secrets11jul11,0,5845664.story - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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