Yes, sarcasm. This early in the morning.
The Justice Department is trying to make the EFF's (Electronic Frontier Foundation) case disappear into the night, it seems. The Justice Department along with the White House (even though they aren't named, as the lawsuit's against AT&T) are trying every "law" in the book to get this case tossed.
The Justice Department said Friday it was moving to dismiss a federal lawsuit challenging the Bush administration's secretive domestic wiretapping program.
The lawsuit, brought by the Internet privacy group, Electronic Frontier Foundation, does not include the government.
Instead, it names AT&T, which the San Francisco-based group accuses of colluding with the National Security Agency to make communications on AT&T networks available to the spy agency without warrants.
The government, in a filing here late Friday, said the lawsuit threatens to expose government and military secrets and therefore should be tossed. The administration added that its bid to intervene in the case should not be viewed as a concession that the allegations are true.
As part of its case, the EFF said it obtained documents from a former AT&T technician showing that the NSA is capable of monitoring all communications on AT&T's network, and those documents are under seal. The former technician said the documents detail secret NSA spying rooms and electronic surveillance equipment in AT&T facilities.
The next big thing is whether the documents should be allowed to go public.
Honestly, does anyone really believe that these damn things will be made public? Uh, legally, that is...this is the internet, and as with anything else, they'll be made public, one way or another.
Tags: [Electronic Frontier Foundation], [EFF], [Justice Department], [Justice Department and government want to toss EFF's lawsuit against AT&T], [AT&T], [lawsuit threatens to expose government and military secrets], [AT&T and NSA were working together secretly]
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