[privacy] NSA: We're Too Secret to Be Sued

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via The Baltimore Sun.

[snip]

A courtroom challenge to the National Security Agency's domestic
surveillance program would expose sensitive state secrets and should be
thrown out, government lawyers told a federal judge yesterday.

In making that sweeping assertion, lawyers employed the state secrets
doctrine, an obscure tool that has been used by the Bush administration
in 22 other instances - more than any other presidency - to squelch
cases touching on intelligence practices.

And it is virtually always a winning strategy, say legal scholars and
attorneys who handle national security cases.

[snip]

More here:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/bal-te.secrets11jul11,0,5845664.story

- ferg

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