Gov't's state secrets claims -- publicly filed versions at EFF page

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Lee Tien <tien () eff org>
Date: May 13, 2006 2:30:45 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Gov't's state secrets claims -- publicly filed versions at  
EFF page

Dear Dave,

We've posted the gov't's late-night filings at the top of the page:  
http://www.eff.org/legal/cases/att/#legal

This is the public, redacted filing.  (I haven't read it yet.)

Lee

 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government filed a motion on Saturday
 to intervene and seek dismissal of a lawsuit by a civil liberties  
group
 against AT&T Inc. over a federal program to monitor U.S.
 communications.

 The suit filed in the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of
 California accuses AT&T of unlawful collaboration with the National
 Security Agency in its surveillance program to intercept telephone and
 e-mail communications between the United States and people linked  
to al
 Qaeda and affiliated organizations.

 The class-action suit was filed by San Francisco-based Electronic
 Frontier Foundation on behalf of AT&T customers in January -- before
 reports this week that AT&T and two other phone companies were  
secretly
 helping the government compile a massive database of phone calls made
 in the United States.

[snip]

 <http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/washington/politics-security- 
att.html?_r=1&oref=slogin>

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someday facilitate a police state. -- Bruce Schneier


Lee Tien
Senior Staff Attorney
Electronic Frontier Foundation
454 Shotwell Street
San Francisco, CA  94110
(415) 436-9333 x 102 (tel)
(415) 436-9993 (fax)
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