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US May Invoke "State Secrets" To Stop Banking Suit
An anonymous reader sends us to the International Herald Tribune for news that the Bush administration is signaling that it plans to turn once again to a favorite legal tool, the 'state secrets' privilege. The administration wants to shut down a lawsuit brought against Swift, a huge Belgium banking cooperative that that the article calls the "nerve center of the global banking industry," after it was revealed that Swift secretly let the CIA comb through millions of private financial records. Quoting: "Two US banking customers sued Swift on invasion-of-privacy grounds. Many legal and financial analysts expected that the lawsuit would be thrown out because US banking privacy laws are considered much more lax than those in much of Europe. But to the surprise of many, a judge refused to throw out the lawsuit in a ruling in June."
You whine about this. Then when the US fails to stop terrorism, you whine about that and ask why the govenment haven't done more to catch these people.
/. post a while ago when people were shocked and horrified when a Tor server was seized.
The innocent have nothing to fear, and if you accounts are in order, then why should it bother you if they're glanced at by a security official.
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I ask you, what are you doing that merits total anonymity? Forgive my cynicism, but could it be something illegal?
You feel sleepy. Close your eyes. The opinions stated above are yours. You cannot imagine why you ever felt otherwise.