Via the AFP: US judge refuses to toss out domestic spying suit against AT and T

A federal judge denied a demand by US officials that a domestic spying lawsuit against telecom giant AT and T be thrown out in the interest of national security.

Wrote US District Court Justice Vaughn Walker is his rulling:

“To defer to a blanket assertion of secrecy would be to abdicate that duty, particularly because the very subject matter of this litigation has been so publicly aired.”

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Walker said during hearings and repeated in his ruling that the state’s secret privilege “is not unlimited.”

Indeed.