A small victory for the good guys
Via Atrios, this piece in the Boston Globe caught my eye:
The Justice Department had argued that no court could review the NSA program because there was an absolute privelege barring the court from any consideration of a program involving state secrets. This appears to be a small victory for the good guys.
DETROIT --A federal judge will go ahead with hearings in a legal challenge to a warrantless domestic surveillance program run by the National Security Agency.
U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor also criticized the Justice Department for failing to respond to the legal challenge, The Detroit News reported Friday.
The Justice Department had argued that no court could review the NSA program because there was an absolute privelege barring the court from any consideration of a program involving state secrets. This appears to be a small victory for the good guys.
posted by walldon | 2:53 PM
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Now is where push comes to shove on that: the core question is whether the claim of state secrets is subject to any degree of judicial inspection, and if so, how much.
No doubt, though, the state secrets privilege is an important part in the contraption the administration is constructing to avoid any institutional accountability, whether to the press, to the judiciary, to whistleblowers, to Congress -- in other words, to destroy the Constitution.
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