http://www.metafilter.com/tags/StateSecretsPrivilege Posts tagged with 'StateSecretsPrivilege' at MetaFilter. Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:12:22 -0800 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:12:22 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/86472/The%2DSecrecy%2DShall%2DContinue <a href="http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202435116662&slreturn=1&hbxlogin=1#">The Obama administration has again invoked the state secrets privilege</a> in an effort to dismiss a <a href="http://legaltimes.typepad.com/files/shubert_complaint.pdf">class action lawsuit challenging government surveillance</a>. The DOJ has also unveiled <a href="http://legaltimes.typepad.com/files/ag-memo-re-state-secrets-dated-09-22-09.pdf">new procedures for invoking the privilege</a>. <a href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/04/on-state-secret.html">This is not the first time</a> the Obama DOJ has taken this position. This is a second post because first link failed in the earlier post. tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.86472 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:12:22 -0800 DOJ EricHolder Obamaadministration Statesecretsprivilege bearwife http://www.metafilter.com/71165/Shred%2Dthe%2Dbanana%2Dpeel <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/04/28/080428fa_fact_keefe">State Secrets: A government misstep in a wiretapping case.</a> A New Yorker article on the Kafkaesque case of <i><a href="http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/03/72811">Al Haramain v. Bush</a></i>. <small>[Via <a href="http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/">Threat Level</a>.]</small> Note that Threat Level disagrees with the New Yorker piece about <a href="http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/04/nsa-spied-on-la.html">the future of the case</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.71165 Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:35:25 -0800 CivilLiberties Law Secrecy StateSecretsPrivilege Surveillance Terrorism Transparency Wiretapping homunculus