Marcia Hoffman writes: A couple weeks ago we told you about a victory in our long-running Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation for documents detailing telecommunications carriers’ lobbying efforts to get off the hook for their role in the government’s warrantless electronic surveillance of millions of ordinary Americans. On September 24, a federal judge ordered…
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EFF Wins Release of Telecom Lobbying Records
In a clear victory for transparency, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey S. White today ordered the government to release more records about the lobbying campaign to provide immunity to the telecommunications firms that participated in the National Security Agency (NSA)’s warrantless surveillance program. The government has been ordered to provide the records to the Electronic Frontier…
Bush’s wiretapping goes to court in S.F.
Bob Egelko reports: After years of wrangling over legal procedures, the lawyer for a defunct Islamic charity laid out his case Wednesday that former President George W. Bush’s secret wiretapping program was illegal – an argument that an Obama administration attorney refused to discuss. “May the president of the United States break the law in…
Op-Ed on Lawless Surveillance by Cindy Cohn
Hugh D’Andrade of EFF points us to an opinion piece their legal director, Cindy Cohen, posted it to the blog of the American Constitution Society. The piece points out that the Obama Administration has embraced two of the most radical positions taken by the Bush Administration — that the Executive Branch need not follow the…