[IP] Gov't's state secrets claims -- publicly filed versions at EFF page
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From: Lee Tien <tien@xxxxxxx>
Date: May 13, 2006 2:30:45 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Gov't's state secrets claims -- publicly filed versions at
EFF page
Dear Dave,
We've posted the gov't's late-night filings at the top of the page:
http://www.eff.org/legal/cases/att/#legal
This is the public, redacted filing. (I haven't read it yet.)
Lee
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government filed a motion on Saturday
to intervene and seek dismissal of a lawsuit by a civil liberties
group
against AT&T Inc. over a federal program to monitor U.S.
communications.
The suit filed in the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of
California accuses AT&T of unlawful collaboration with the National
Security Agency in its surveillance program to intercept telephone and
e-mail communications between the United States and people linked
to al
Qaeda and affiliated organizations.
The class-action suit was filed by San Francisco-based Electronic
Frontier Foundation on behalf of AT&T customers in January -- before
reports this week that AT&T and two other phone companies were
secretly
helping the government compile a massive database of phone calls made
in the United States.
[snip]
<http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/washington/politics-security-
att.html?_r=1&oref=slogin>
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