[privacy] Maine Asks Court to Dismiss Suit Over Phone Company Records

[Brian Loe]

On 9/22/06, Dude VanWinkle <dudevanwinkle at gmail.com> wrote:
> I for one agree with Maine.
>
> One branch of the government shouldnt be able to invoke "state
> secrets" when it is being questioned by another branch of the
> government who was endowed with powers to keep the former in check

Maine isn't a branch of the government.

I would assume the government does a high-level, private briefing with
most judges (which are a branch of the government) who are considering
one of these cases. The judge then has to decide if what they've been
told is sufficient to be considered a state secret ("state" not
meaning a state of the union but the union itself).