A lawsuit filed by several AT&T customers aiming to stop NSA surveillance of their Internet activities without a warrant has been rejected in a ruling by an Oakland judge today.
The 10-page ruling argues that the plaintiffs can’t prove they were targeted, and thus can’t prove standing to challenge their surveillance, but simultaneously insists this is irrelevant and state secrets would prevent anyone from contesting their surveillance.
The judge says officials provided him with classified documents that convinced him to reject the lawsuit, though the exact reason is elusive, since the argument itself is classified.
The NSA surveillance scandal has produced an ongoing legal battle in which some judges, like Judge White today, are inclined to give the administration the benefit of the doubt on anything they do on national security grounds, while other judges have been extremely skeptical. Even when judges have ruled against surveillance, appeals to other judges often mean a reversal of the decision, meaning the battle will continue to rage, unresolved, until the Supreme Court finally decides it is appropriate to weigh in on the matter, something they have insisted in the past they don’t intend to do.
Another neocon establishment puppet feigning to be a judge.
'The judge says officials provided him with classified documents that convinced him to reject the lawsuit"
Did the documents include a wad of cash or photos of the judge with his mistress?
The judge says officials provided him with classified documents that convinced him to reject the lawsuit, though the exact reason is elusive, since the argument itself is classified.
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Well there you have it. In other words you just have to trust them. They would never lie to you….
America is finished!
"The more laws, the less justice.” Marcus Tullius Cicero 106 to 43 BC
The 4th Amendment to the US Constitution has not been repealed.
That my electronic correspondence is dissembled to not be my personal "effects" because it might be in the physical possession of an electronic 'livery' service is VA18.2-111 "Embezzlement" of the law by officers under oath-bound trust to administer that law. This is a VRICO crime. Also VA18.2-481(5) "Treason" of "Resisting the execution of the (true duly authorized) laws under the (mere) color of its (the true laws) authority."
But we have let the lawful authority of our grand and petite juries be defrauded so the reset of the law is no remedy to us except when convenient to the VRICO criminal gang. Functionally speaking the the law is no longer ours but is merely a weapon to be used against us by that VRICO criminal gang.