Court orders Bush administration to disclose telecom ties.

[kpete]

The EFF victory was a little more substantial than most people (who are not lawyers and have not read the opinion) are getting: the judge granted an injunction compelling the DNI to produce the documents re the contacts between Telcos and McConnell and the the DNI and the the DNI and either or both Houses re amending FISA, and that it be done by 12/10, precisely because Congress is considering whether and how to amend FISA and this information has a possibility of being very important in that debate.

Court orders Bush administration to disclose telecom ties.
http://www.eff.org/files/filenode/foia_C0705278/eff_v_odni_order.pdf

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has won another significant legal battle, as a federal judge in California yesterday ordered the Bush administration (.pdf) to comply with EFF’s FOIA demand and disclose documents revealing its “communications with telecommunications carriers and members of Congress” regarding efforts to amend FISA and provide amnesty to telecoms. Better still, the court imposed an extremely quick deadline for release of these documents — December 10 — so that “the public may participate in the debate over the pending legislation on an informed basis.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/11/29/court-orders-bush-administration-to-disclose-telecom-ties/

[Supersedeas]

1. now thats a story will substantive news -- but Wolf/Tweety/Katie and Brian will be doing OJ

[in_cog_ni_to]

2. Will they comply before 12/10?

When pigs fly.