EFF Press Conference After NSA Wiretapping Court Hearing

http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2006_06.php#004761

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) told a federal judge today that the government should not be allowed to use the "state secrets privilege" to preempt the class-action lawsuit against AT&T.

EFF's suit accuses AT&T of collaborating with the National Security Agency (NSA) in illegally spying on millions of Americans -- handing over customers' telephone and Internet records and communications without any legal authority. Department of Justice lawyers argued today that even if the NSA program is illegal, pursuing the case might expose "state secrets." However, EFF attorneys asked the judge to allow the case to proceed, considering the privilege in regards to specific evidence and situations instead of derailing the suit all together.

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[donotreply1000]

@ 2:21 "can you show that your clients have being injured by this process?"

No, but if your going to argue that because no one has being injured by AT&T makes them blameless then i guess that it's okay for them to secretly manufacture weapons? No one gets hurt but the potential for harm without openness and oversight is massive.

[chapellkarina]

GREAT JOB!! You and those like you make youtube great.

[1975Aspen]

AT&T's involvement goes far beyond wiretaps. AT&T vans are being used for spying, harrassment and intimidation by the sheriff and police depts. Problem is there's not much choice. In many areas it's either AT&T or Comcast, and Comcast is about as bad as the AT&T. Bet you didn't know that cops run gangs. Yes, cops in the U.S. run gangs that in large metropolis can be as large as Sheriff Arpaio's posse of 300,000 civilians which they use to harrass and intimidate people. Look up GANG STALKING.

[brianwesley28]

@zaphraud

It is much more than that. In fact, AT&T waived all costs associated with the incident, including the modem and the technician's visit. Let's just say that I've been involved in some pretty sensitive matters and there are some who like me and there are some who do not. I can understand your perspective if I were to place myself in your shoes, but you haven't walked in mine.

[zaphraud]

@brianwesley28 YouTube's comment system has been a piece of shit for several years. Google hasn't fixed it either, near as I can tell they've simply made it worse. Pretty sure that your panicking over nothing there.... follow the money. Just cause AT&T is frying modems (or pretending to) to sell new ones doesn't mean they're censoring email or conspiring with YT

[brianwesley28]

By the way, I still have the video of my initial attempts to post to this comment section and it proves that my comments were not posting, where they suddenly began to, after I started sending messages to people who had commented in this section. I've had these things happen so many times that I have started to video them as I am posting, whenever there is an issue.

[brianwesley28]

NOW they're placed at the top of the list, without having to go past page three to see the select all comments option! How convenient, indeed. Maybe if you asshats didn't pull shit like this in the first place, people like me wouldn't be about to own AT&T and boot your asses out of the telecommunications industry?

[brianwesley28]

@brianwesley28

They're neatly concealed, though, aren't they? Not in the location of the most recent posts by the default, when one initially accesses the comment section? That's convenient. I'll sure have to make sure that I monitor the placement of my posts to future YT comment sections, won't I? To see how common it is for a recent post to be concealed and only viewed if one goes to the end to press the see all comments? Haven't had those issues on other YT comment sections.

[brianwesley28]

Now they all post, eh?

[brianwesley28]

I have a slam dunk case against AT&T, as well as Yahoo!, that I am about to begin shopping attorneys for. It is going to be a slam dunk for two reasons. First, I am that good and I have had several documented conversations with AT&T employees, including case numbers and agent identification numbers, as well as juicy information. Second, I'm that good, that the attorney won't even have to do much work because I've already done it for them.