ACLU Vs. AT&T Case Dismissed

Via ABC Chicago

A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit that sought to bar AT&T from giving the government telephone records without warrants, saying it would require disclosures that would “adversely affect our national security.”

Judge Matthew F. Kennelly said disclosing whether AT&T had given such records to the supersecret National Security Agency in its hunt for terrorists would violate the government’s right to keep state secrets.

“The court is persuaded that requiring AT&T to confirm or deny whether it has disclosed large quantities of telephone records to the federal government could give adversaries of this country valuable insight into the government’s intelligence activities,” the 40-page opinion said.

Kennelly ruled in a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois on behalf of author Studs Terkel and others who claimed their rights had been violated by disclosure of the phone records to NSA.

The ACLU is naturally upset! They will most likely appeal.

The KOS Kidz (over)react:

Democracy just died ladies and gentleman. Your judicial branch just refused to provide any oversight and deferred to the executive branch. In its place facism has risen. ATT is now more powerful than the judicial branch of the government, under the protection of the executive branch.

AJ Strata thinks thinks more of these bogus lawsuits will get the boot.

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Posted by Jay on July 25, 2006 8:22 pm

» Filed Under ACLU, News, War On Terror

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2 Responses to “ACLU Vs. AT&T Case Dismissed”

  1. Draven32 on July 25th, 2006 9:20 pm

    Those particular types of records have been ruled to be the same kind of information as hotel registers- which is accessible to law enforcement since what, ‘71?

  2. kerwin_brown on July 27th, 2006 2:41 am

    The ACLU needs to look up the definition of fascism because they obviously do not know it. The President is elected and executes laws while Congress is elected and makes laws. Notice the elected in both those descriptions. The ACLU seems to have trouble with elected bodies.

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