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Back in October, we wrote about the appeal on the legality of National Security Letters (NSLs), which are secretive filings from law enforcement demanding information with a perpetual gag order. In 2013, a district court had declared that NSLs were unconstitutional, but stayed that decision pending appeal. While the appeals court judges seemed skeptical, it still wasn't clear how they would rule. So it's interesting to see that the Justice Department has just admitted that it misled the court on some rather important points during the oral arguments.
In particular, with regards to the First Amendment question, the DOJ had insisted that companies could discuss the "quality" of the NSLs it had received, explaining it this way:
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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141113/17330429133/justice-department-admits-it-lied-to-appeals-court-concerning-companies-ability-to-talk-about-national-security-letters.shtml
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(32,139 posts)from a corrupt, authoritarian oligarchy that holds only contempt for the mechanisms *and* the people of the democracy it subverted and replaced.
We don't have democracy anymore. That's what the Princeton study showed. Not gridlocked democracy, but united oligarchy. Corporate money floods Washington on both sides of the aisle.
Gridlocked democracy is an illusion carefully sustained through propaganda to keep Americans from figuring out that we have experienced a corporate coup in this country. We don't have democracy anymore; citizens have virtually NO impact on policy anymore, because it is purchased and driven by economic elites. We have united oligarchy, both parties purchased and working toward the same predatory corporate agenda and showing utter contempt for our mechanisms of democracy and the will of the people.
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Lies upon lies upon lies
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