Domestic Spying Records Ordered Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday February 17, 2006 @09:24AM 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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Re:about time by Valiss · 2006-02-17 10:00 · Score: 0, Redundant

My new hero this judge is.

Replacing Yoda?

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-Valiss
Re:Hang on there. by ScrappyLaptop · 2006-02-17 11:02 · Score: 1, Redundant

Not Bush directly, no. Didn't need to. However, a day or two after the war started, Bush gave Cheney the same power to "declassify" information that Clinton granted the position of President. So, as long as Scooter claims that he got his information about Valerie from the VP, he is in the clear. You see, as Vice President, Cheney doesn't have to actually go through any of that peskey paperwork to declassify anything; he just has to let the information out and then it is de facto declassified. Neat, huh? Game over and nobody goes to jail.