U.S. Government Intervenes in EFF vs. AT&T

An anonymous reader writes "Reuters is reporting that the US government has '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.' More from the article: " In its motion seeking intervention, posted on the court's Web site, the government said the interests of the parties in the lawsuit "may well be in the disclosure of state secrets" in their effort to present their claims or defenses ... A hearing is scheduled for June 21 before federal Judge Vaughn Walker." You may recall a few weeks ago when the DOJ asked the judge to dismiss the case. They've now taken the next step required to quash this legal action.

Comments

I for one...

[Anonymous Coward]

welcome our new, government-inconveniencing-case-dismissing overlords.

The is the largest government abuse

[pHatidic]

Since Bill Clinton classed his penis as a state secret.

Re:Lawsuits

[Al Dimond]

Err... the problem is that if the terrorists have won by banning all women they're pretty much going to lose by default some 60 years down the road or so.

This is not the truth you're seeking

[Anonymous Coward]

Gov: This is not the truth you're seeking.
Judge: This is not the truth we're seeking.
Gov: Dismiss the case. <waves hand>
Judge: Case dismissed.

Re:Lawsuits

[heinousjay]

Or as we in the US say: "only an insecure weenie would bother debunking a simple colloquialism being used in a humorous manner in a Slashdot post to put some weird points on an imaginary international scoreboard in a game that no one in the US is even interested in playing."