Justice Delayed is Justice Denied! NSA trial postponed for shutdown.

Well, it's interesting to step back and begin to really consider how many different things are put on the back burner by this. They keep claiming it's only such and such a % being closed and that always seem to be a low number. Why then, is it always such important areas within that very small %?

MANHATTAN (CN) - The government shutdown should not hobble the challenge to massive telephone surveillance by the NSA, the ACLU told a federal judge.

The American Civil Liberties Union asked U.S. District Judge William Pauley on Thursday to lift a stay imposed earlier this month by Chief Judge Loretta Preska with the Southern District of New York. On the first day of the shutdown, Preska had ordered that all civil cases requiring counsel from the U.S. Attorney's Office be tolled.

I think it's important to remember that while the shutdown has effectively shut down the case and challenge for right now? The actions this is all about have not stopped and of course, the NSA is busy watching as much or more than ever.

Delaying proceedings "deprives the public and Congress" of "information that is highly relevant to their ongoing consideration of the government's surveillance authorities," the letter states.

While "cognizant" of the financial restraints that the government shutdown has placed on the Department of Justice, the ACLU says that, "given the nature of the challenged conduct," a stay of the chief judge's order is "warranted and necessary."

Source: Courthouse News

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reply to post by Wrabbit2000


That's ridiculous. Cases requiring counsel from a U.S. DA are always important cases, so why are they being postponed??

Ridiculous.

It's quite simple really.

Starve enough families. Prevent enough widows/widowers from receiving death benefits. Prevent people from using THEIR land for personal reasons, like *enjoyment* (because we need that these days, life sucks in case you haven't read the memo)...Prevent children from getting chemo therapy for their deadly disease...


And we the plebes will all really forget the outrage about the NSA.



It's all that simple.