DoJ, Verizon, team up
p2p news / p2pnet: The US Department of Justice has joined with Verizon Communications to demand that at least two dozen lawsuits lodged against the Bush administration and Verizon Communications that involve alleged National Security Agency’s access to customer telephone records, are consolidated.
"The government on Monday filed a motion supporting Verizon’s request that 20 class action lawsuits accusing the company of helping the foreign intelligence surveillance program be combined in a single court in Washington," says Reuters, continuing:
"The Justice Department also asked that five other lawsuits against the U.S. government related to the surveillance program be consolidated and coordinated with the Verizon proceeding.
"Government lawyers said they planned to seek dismissal of the lawsuits against Verizon by asserting military and state secrets privileges under U.S. law. Moving the cases to one court would expedite the process while protecting classified information, it said."
Also See:
Reuters – Justice Dept. wants NSA suits consolidated for D.C. court, June 20, 2006
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June 21st, 2006 at 8:22 pm
Maybe the RIAA should consolidate its 20,000 lawsuits into one case too.
June 21st, 2006 at 8:38 pm
Asserting military and state secrets privileges. This seems to be the answer du jour to any question the fed would rather not answer these days.
June 24th, 2006 at 10:41 pm
Seems to be??? The American government is blatantly lying while not-even-covertly converting the jumble of beuracratic red tape into a noose with which they can keep a stranglehold on the American public. I am disgusted that such an obvious totalitarian regime has been allowed, unchecked, to build in power and commit such disgusting crimes against humanity as the American government recently has (Afghanistan, Iraq, etc..).
July 7th, 2006 at 2:31 pm
I agree.
It truly amazes me that our Senators and Congressmen have permitted â no, have joined hands with the Executive branch to blatantly trample on our civil and human rights. AND that the electorate has sat back complacently watching all of this, without casting a single vote to oust those fascists from office!
Hitler required an âenablingâ law; our government simply sneezes and Congress wipes its nose while giving it any power it even HINTS at.
I give our Constitution fifty more years, conservatively (pun intended), before it is an artifact of a non-existent republic that one was the ideal of the modern world.