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Perhaps this speaks to the weakness of the government's case. I don't know how long these gag orders should remain in force, but they clearly need to expire at
by ScottBurson 11y ago
Perhaps this speaks to the weakness of the government's case.
I don't know how long these gag orders should remain in force, but they clearly need to expire at some point, and 11 years is clearly long enough.
I hope other NSL recipients are emboldened by this outcome to file similar suits.
- duskwuff 11y agoIf nothing else, there's absolutely no reason for a gag order to be allowed to outlive the investigation that it was supposed to protect.
- lsaferite 11y agoI'm fairly confident, in this case, they are using the gag order as a way to hide investigative methods. It's the same reason they try so hard to suppress stingrays being brought into the light. They don't want their opponent to know what they are looking for or how they find them.
- fnordfnordfnord 11y ago>They don't want their opponent to know what they are looking for or how they find them. That is a tired old excuse. I think it's safe to say that cat is out of the bag now. The government wants to protect these methodologies from disclosure because they are in fact unconstitutional, and disclosure (as in part of the official public record) threatens existing convictions as well as present and future investigations. Additionally, there is probably more than a little bit of paranoia within gov't that someone might get in hot water over the illegal things they've been up to; though I'll believe that's a real fear after I see a gov't agent actually go to jail.