EFF defeats motion to dismiss in AT&T class action suit
A federal judge today denied the government’s motion to dismiss the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s (EFF’s) case against AT&T for collaborating with the NSA in illegal spying of millions of ordinary Americans. This allows the case to go forward in the courts.
Though perhaps not readily apparent, this is huge news (and, I think, might not have been reached but for the Hamdi case). The government had filed a brief supporting the dismissal on the grounds that proceeding in the case would destroy state secrets and harm national security. They’ve abused this defense a number of times, always in support of government activities even the bedwetters who exchanged their notions of liberty for paternalistic security after 9/11 would recognize as authoritarian power grabs. AT&T’s motion was denied as well.
Read is the 72-page court order denying both AT&T’s and the government’s motions for dismissal.
Learn more about the case. Donate to the EFF if you can.
Greenwald has much more on the import of this decision.
