Judge Defers U.S. Government Claims of State Secrets
Ryan Singel writes over on 27B Stroke 6:
While the EFF lawsuit against AT&T for allegedly helping the government spy on American's without warrants is mired in the thicket of the state secrets privilege, the ACLU's lawsuit against the government has managed to find a relatively bramble free path to a potential judgment on the legality of at least a portion of the warrantless surveillance.More here.
The lawsuit is taking on both the confirmed NSA eavesdropping on certain overseas phone calls and emails and the alleged data-mining of Americans' domestic and foreign phone records.
US District Court Judge Anna Diggs Taylor has postponed the government's request to dismiss the case on state secrets grounds, until after a Monday hearing on the legality of the eavesdropping portion of the case.
posted by Fergie @ 6/06/2006 04:10:00 PM
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