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Yet another potential indictment for the Dubya dictatorship. Let us all hope that this is the one that finally sees him and his thuggish cohorts in court answering for their crimes. Maybe that will be the moment when everybody awakens from their deep sleep and realises that the world is being taken over by a small group of fascist lunatics bent on removing your rights and freedoms and destroying any people or nations that dare to oppose them. Maybe. UPDATE TO THIS ARTICLE INCLUDING VIDEO CLIP HERE! |
| Monday 24th July 2006 | vnunet.com by Tom Sanders |
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A federal judge has denied motions by the US government and telecoms provider AT&T that sought to block a lawsuit centring on the the carrier's alleged cooperation in a government wiretapping programme. The suit was brought forward last January by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which claims that AT&T illegally allows the National Security Agency to listen in on traffic on its network. The US government was asking for a dismissal of the case because it could expose state secrets. It argued that the wiretapping programme, if it exists, is a state secret. Additionally it was claimed that any evidence arising from the case would also be secret, so preventing AT&T from staging an effective defence. The judge, however, ruled that the existence of the case is already common knowledge and by itself cannot be considered a state secret. He proposed appointing an independent expert to determine whether evidence should be considered a secret. The EFF praised the ruling. "Judge Walker correctly found that the government, after having already admitted to and extensively commented on the NSA's spying programme, cannot now claim that it is a secret and sweep AT& T's role under the rug," said EFF staff attorney Kevin Bankston. |