Supreme Court Terminates Warrantless Electronic Spying Case

The Supreme Court closed a 6-year-old chapter Tuesday in the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s bid to hold the nation’s telecoms liable for allegedly providing the National Security Agency with backdoors to eavesdrop, without warrants, on Americans’ electronic communications in violation of federal law. Full Story »

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Dwight Rousu
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by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 11, 2012

When the state secrets doctrine is invoked, judges routinely dismiss cases amid fears of exposing national security secrets.

This is BS. Courts need to be able to review classified information, even if it is in secret.

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