http://aldacron.net/blog/2006/07/27/two-more-strikes-at-freedom-and-one-base-hit/ Searching for reason in an unreasonable world. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:28:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://aldacron.net/blog/2006/07/27/two-more-strikes-at-freedom-and-one-base-hit/comment-page-1/#comment-100 There May Yet Be Hope For Justice » The One With Aldacron Mon, 21 Aug 2006 06:01:33 +0000 http://aldacron.net/blog/2006/07/27/two-more-strikes-at-freedom-and-one-base-hit/#comment-100 [...] It looks as if the US government may have gotten more than it bargained for. A motion by the government to consolidate 17 lawsuits against warrantless wiretapping was approved, but the request to move the consolidated cases to Washington D.C. was denied. Instead, the cases were handed over to Judge Vaughn Walker of the District Court for the Northern District of California. You may have heard of him. He’s the guy who, in the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s suit against the government (another warrantless eavesdropping case) refused to accept the government’s argument that the case should be thrown out as a threat to national security. [...] [...] It looks as if the US government may have gotten more than it bargained for. A motion by the government to consolidate 17 lawsuits against warrantless wiretapping was approved, but the request to move the consolidated cases to Washington D.C. was denied. Instead, the cases were handed over to Judge Vaughn Walker of the District Court for the Northern District of California. You may have heard of him. He’s the guy who, in the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s suit against the government (another warrantless eavesdropping case) refused to accept the government’s argument that the case should be thrown out as a threat to national security. [...]

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