{"id":256,"date":"2006-05-16T09:47:31","date_gmt":"2006-05-15T23:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=256"},"modified":"2006-05-16T11:04:43","modified_gmt":"2006-05-16T01:04:43","slug":"us-department-of-justice-moves-to-dismiss-eff-suit-on-national-security-grounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=256","title":{"rendered":"US Department of Justice moves to dismiss EFF suit on ‘national security’ grounds"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"King<\/p>\n

“If this were a dictatorship, it’d be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I’m the dictator<\/strong>.”<\/em><\/p>\n

?King George W. Bush, 19 December 2000<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Looks like King George is again<\/a> attempting to assert his Royal powers.<\/p>\n

The Electronic Frontiers Foundation<\/a> (EFF) filed a class action suit<\/a> against AT&T on 31 January 2006 alleging that AT&T’s divulgence of call records of millions of Americans (the vast majority of whom are unsuspected of any criminal activity) to the NSA without warrants, is illegal. EFF also asked the court to restrain AT&T from further warrantless disclosures.<\/p>\n

The US Department of Justice has intervened, countering the EFF complaint<\/a> with an unusual early Saturday morning filing, which moves to dismiss<\/a> EFF’s complaint on the basis that public exposure of the evidence would compromise national security.<\/p>\n

Is the United States a constitutional democratic republic- or King George’s personal plaything?<\/p>\n

We shall see.<\/p>\n

The court is slated to rule on the government’s motion to dismiss EFF’s complaint on Wednesday, 17 May 2006.<\/p>\n

-weez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“If this were a dictatorship, it’d be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I’m the dictator.” ?King George W. Bush, 19 December 2000 Looks like King George is again attempting to assert his Royal powers. The Electronic Frontiers Foundation (EFF) filed a class action suit against AT&T on 31 January 2006 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}