The Supreme Court closed a 6-year-old chapter Tuesday in the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s bid to hold the nation’s telecoms liable for allegedly providing the National Security Agency with backdoors to eavesdrop, without warrants, on Americans’ electronic communications in violation of federal law. Full Story »
Posted by Pamela Hogle - via Dan Gillmor
As someone who had a Top Secret Clearance with access, I often opined that the majority of classified material was classified not to keep our enemies from knowing, but to keep the American people from knowing. After Nixon, there was a major move to declassify all material after a set period of years unless specificly exempted, that was reversed under GWB in the aftermath of his historic security failure on 9/11. I hope this judge follows Judge Sirica's example and requires the ... More »
When the state secrets doctrine is invoked, judges routinely dismiss cases amid fears of exposing national security secrets. More »
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