US court: Law does not protect identities of lobbyists
Beat The Chip
02/09/10
Today a federal appeals court rejected a government claim of ‘lobbyist privacy’ to hide the identities of individuals who pressured Congress to grant immunity to telecommunications companies that participated in the government’s warrantless electronic surveillance of millions of ordinary Americans. As the court observed, ‘There is a clear public interest in public knowledge of the methods through which well-connected corporate lobbyists wield their influence’...
http://tinyurl.com/ylf6a7t
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Feds Push for Tracking Cell Phones
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/mccullagh5.1.1.html
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Lobbyists Laughing at Obama 'All the Way to the Bank'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/02/12-10
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=lobbyists
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=telecoms+immunity
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=warrantless
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=surveillance
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=mccullagh
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Arthur+Delaney
02/09/10
Today a federal appeals court rejected a government claim of ‘lobbyist privacy’ to hide the identities of individuals who pressured Congress to grant immunity to telecommunications companies that participated in the government’s warrantless electronic surveillance of millions of ordinary Americans. As the court observed, ‘There is a clear public interest in public knowledge of the methods through which well-connected corporate lobbyists wield their influence’...
http://tinyurl.com/ylf6a7t
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Feds Push for Tracking Cell Phones
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/mccullagh5.1.1.html
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Lobbyists Laughing at Obama 'All the Way to the Bank'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/02/12-10
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=lobbyists
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=telecoms+immunity
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=warrantless
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=surveillance
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=mccullagh
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Arthur+Delaney
rudkla - 11. Feb, 09:53
