[privacy] Judge Denies Government and AT&T Motions to Dismiss NSA Case

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

Via 27B Stroke 6.

[snip]

A federal judge in San Francisco has rejected the Bush administration's
bid to kill the EFF's class action lawsuit alleging that AT&T is
cooperating in an illegal NSA surveillance program that monitors
Americans' internet activities.

In a 72-page written decision issued Thursday, U.S. District Court
chief judge Vaughn Walker rejected the government's argument that
merely allowing the case to proceed would cause critical harm to U.S.
national security -- a ruling that marks a significant victory for EFF,
and puts a rare limitation on the reach of the president's "state
secrets privilege" to sweep alleged illegal government activities under
the cloak of national security.

[snip]

More here:
http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/index.blog?entry_id=1524713

- ferg


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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg(at)netzero.net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/

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