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Submission + - Court orders Bush admin to disclose telecom ties (salon.com)

Submitted by rgiskard01 on Thursday November 29, 2007 @12:24PM

rgiskard01 writes: From Glenn Greenwald at Salon.com, "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."
Story: http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/?last_story=/opinion/greenwald/2007/11/29/telecom_lobbying/
Court Order: http://www.eff.org/files/filenode/foia_C0705278/eff_v_odni_order.pdf

Submission + - EFF Wins FOIA Battle Over Telecom Lobbying

Submitted by jbonik on Thursday November 29, 2007 @12:08PM

jbonik writes: A California judge has ordered the disclosure of records of meetings between people in the Bush administration and lobbyists working on behalf of the telecom industry. The records, which must be made available by Decemeber 10th, will pertain to industry input on efforts to update FISA and provide legal immunity to the telecoms.

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