Secret Prosecution; Secret Judicial Decisions; Illegal Surveillance

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Secret Prosecution; Secret Judicial Decisions; Illegal Surveillance
by Andrew C White
Sat Mar 11, 2006 at 10:24:56 AM PDT

Late last night I posted a diary on a note I had received from a lawyer involved in a local "terrorism" (entrapment) case. I am reposting it here along with additional information from today's New York Times article.

Andrew C White's diary :: ::
A note from a friend involved in a local case challenging NSA spying was waiting for me when I got home tonight:

When I got back to my office after lunch today, I found out the government had submitted their "response" to our wiretap motion - it said, in its entirety: "classified." Their entire legal memo was classified! I got a call from the NYCLU immediately, and spoke to Corey Stoughten, who said this is completely unprecedented and wrong and illegal. So then we were talking about objecting to it, etc, and THEN the order came in from Judge McAvoy summarily denying the whole motion! No hearing, no amicus, no reply, NOTHING! AND the actual order was classified!! Terry wasn't there and then I had to leave, but I just spoke to him on the phone. He said the NYT already called him and he told them what happened. He definitely wants to fight this very strongly - it's just so insane that it's hard to know exactly what to do next. But we want to let people know. At this point any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks, Kathy"

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Update: Just received a copy of the order. All that is known of the governments legel memo is the one word...

classified

The Judge's decision:

at (Fascinating):
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/3/11/122456/811
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/11/national/11terror.html?_r=1&oref=slogin