U.S. Government Moves To Dismiss EFF Case

iny0urbrain writes "The New York Times reports that the US government has asked a federal judge to dismiss the Electronic Frontier Foundation's civil liberties lawsuit against the AT&T Corporation because 'of a possibility that military and state secrets would otherwise be disclosed.' The statement concludes by saying: 'Finally, because the United States intends to assert the state secrets privilege and file a dispositive motion to dismiss this action, the United States requests that discovery proceedings be deferred until the government's submission has been considered and heard.' You can view the full text of the government's statement of interest (PDF) on the EFF's website." Sorry, hadn't had my coffee yet this morning, and double posted this one. Sadly, the first one is a mere two stories down. It's also still pouring into the submissions bin, so I'm not the only one not yet awake.

Comments

Re:Hipocrits

[MustardMan]

Man, you're totally right. All this time, I've been watching tv shows where they do stuff that I wouldn't do in real life... I'm such a hypocrite. I'm going to throw away my Office Space DVD, because setting your employer's building on fire is just WRONG, and I should never glorify such actions by supporting such an obviously evil work of fucking fiction. Thank you for opening my eyes.

Dupe-ing stories good for once

[TheNoxx]

Normally, I'd quickly join the collective groan upon seeing a story duped, but this is one of those rare cases where it actually comes in handy and adds one more voice trying to get the American public to PAY SOME FUCKING ATTENTION.

Now, if only the NY Times would dupe stories like this. :)

Sad but true

[Anonymous Coward]

It's horrific to see the US sleepwalking into a dictatorship. I'm going to deal with this in true slashdot fashion, somebody post some pr0n links - it's fapp time.

Re:Hipocrit[e]s

[Mr Z]

I know... we should enter into a reciprocal remote spying agreement with another country we're close with. For example, we could spy on Brits for Tony Blair, and they could spy on Americans for us. Then, we just share the intelligence! Now America would not be spying on Americans any longer. That should work, right? After all, we already participate in extraordinary rendition!

--Joe