DOJ to drop bomb on EFF vs. AT&T Options

[pebkac]

http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/

The federal government intends to invoke the rarely used "State Secrets Privilege" -- the legal equivalent of a nuclear bomb -- in the Electronic Frontier Foundation's class action lawsuit against AT&T that alleges the telecom collaborated with the government's secret spying on American citizens.

Wow. Dubya's covering his own and his partners' asses.

[Spectatrix]

but why would we want to handcuff our government's ability to catch potential mass murderers?

So... we should allow the government to freely wiretap everyone? Because if they don't have enough evidence to get a warrant from the FISA court, then they might as well just be wiretapping citizens at random.

I bet half of you wouldn't care if Bill Clinton was the one who did this.

I can't speak for zetec and pebkac, but Zach and I are both fairly Libertarian. I think that most Republicans AND most Democrats are full of shit.