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Government Seeks Dismissal of Spy Suit
The Wired blog 27B Stroke 6 is carrying the news that the US has filed a motion to drop the case the ACLU won in lower court against the government's warrantless wiretapping program. The government's appeal of that ruling will be heard on Wednesday, January 31 in front of the Sixth Circuit court of appeals. The feds argue that the case is now moot because they are now obtaining warrants from the FISA court, and furthermore President Bush did not renew the warrantless program. Turns out there's a Supreme Court precedent saying that if you were doing something illegal, get taken to court, and then stop the illegal activity, you're not off the hook. The feds argue in their petition that this precedent does not apply to them. Here is the government's filing (PDF).
Guess what, I have mod points available, and rather than spend them modding your posts down (dear god I want to, reading your post history) I find it damn near impossible to do so, when I checked your history, pretty much your entire post career on /. has been modded -1.
/. (I read the thing for 8 months before I made an account, I even remember kicking back and listening to "slashdot radio" from before the word podcast was used) was the same ol'-same ol' aka. a communal blog on "geek interests".
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Comparing moderation to what the Nazis did is, and I will be brutally frank, fucking deranged.
Get over it, the original
Back to your regularly scheduled mayhem
ps, a "troll" is someone who partakes of "trolling" ie baiting people to reply (yeah, much as I have done), not some relation to a fictitious creature.
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