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Domestic Spying Records Ordered Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the let's-get-to-the-bottom-of-this dept.

CokoBWare wrote to mention an eWeek report on the NSA's domestic spying program. A federal judge has ordered the Department of Justice to release records from the program by March 8th. From the article: "In ordering the Justice Department to expedite the FOIA request processing, Judge Henry Kennedy Jr., of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, said that the department's opinion that it could determine how much time is needed was 'easily rejected ... Under DOJ's view of the expedited processing provisions of FOIA, the government would have carte blanche to determine the time line for processing expedited requests,'"

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  1. Re:Kick ass by ScrappyLaptop · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Don't forget to also wag your finger at the Senate, which in an even bigger story, has now decided that there is no need to investigate this whole "domestic spying" thingy.

    So, you have one branch saying, "Let's see what really happened" and the other two saying, "Nothing to see here; move along, move along".

  2. Not going to happen by HangingChad · · Score: 4, Interesting
    A federal judge ordered the Department of Justice to release records related to the National Security Agency's warrantless domestic spying program by March 8, or else explain the legal basis under which the records cannot be released.

    The Gonzales will just give him the same tripe they've been spouting on TV. Constitution, use of force authorization, blah, blah, blah. The Bush administration isn't going to let some piddly little district court judge push them around. Especially when they've managed to load the Supreme Kangaroo Court with their cronnies.

    They'll claim it's necessary for "security" and there will be a 5 to 4 vote overturning the order and they'll go right back to doing whatever the hell they feel like. This will only further demonstrate how little the current administration values the rule of law. And if you haven't figured that out by now, you're never going to. For rest of us it will simply be one more razor slash on the Constitution.

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  3. Re:I love this guy. by ivanmarsh · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The amusing outcome of this is that Bush and Cheney will say they can't release the documents because they're classified... then go read the story released today where Cheney says he has the authority do declassify information... which is his (newest) excuse for the Plame case.

    Information about domestic spying must be kept confidential... Oh, but here's the name of an active CIA operative.