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EFF Interviewed About Their Case Against AT&T

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the getting-to-know dept.

ntk writes "Glenn Greenwald from Salon has a long, informative interview with Cindy Cohn, the EFF attorney leading the suit against AT&T over their warrantless wiretapping of their customers. It talks about why the White House is pushing for retroactive immunity against the telco, what the suit has revealed so far, and how little Congressfolk appear to know about how Internet traffic is being monitored."

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  1. complete bullshit by Scudsucker · · Score: 0, Redundant

    What Bush & Co have been doing is legal, at least according to the letter of the Constitution. The Constitution allows the President to suspend civil liberties (even habeas corpus) in cases of warfare, or for national defense.

    Habeas corpus may be suspended - but only in times of rebellion or invasion. We've had neither.

    Even though Congress hasn't officially declared war, the mantra in Washington is that we are at war.

    Irrelevant. A war isn't a War until Congress has declared one, and it hasn't.