EFF and Government Face Off Over Lobbying Disclosure Delays in Friday Hearing

01.04.08 - 21:51 ... source : Electronic Frontier Foundation

... Agencies Fail to Release Records on Telecom Lobbying Activity San Francisco - On Friday, April 4, at 9 a.m., the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will urge a federal judge to speed the government's release of information about a campaign to change federal surveillance law to benefit telecommunications companies. Congress is currently considering granting immunity to telecoms that participated in unlawful electronic surveillance on millions of ordinary Americans. But the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) have failed to comply with a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for documents reflecting te ...» Next (HTML)