{"id":301813,"date":"2010-02-10T09:55:23","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T14:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100209\/1656388103.shtml"},"modified":"2010-02-10T09:55:23","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T14:55:23","slug":"appeals-court-notes-the-feds-cant-hide-behind-lobbyist-privacy-in-not-releasing-documents-on-immunity-lobbying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/301813","title":{"rendered":"Appeals Court Notes The Feds Can’t Hide Behind ‘Lobbyist Privacy’ In Not Releasing Documents On Immunity Lobbying"},"content":{"rendered":"

For a while now, the EFF has been trying to get the White House to reveal information on who lobbied to get retroactive telco immunity for warrantless wiretapping. The “we’re all about transparency and openness” Obama administration has been stalling<\/a> as much as possible, and while it released some<\/i><\/a> info after a long fight, it still insisted that it was keeping some information private, claiming a heretofore unknown standard of “lobbyist privacy.” Yeah, that’s a good one. Turns out the courts don’t know what it means either, and an Appeals Court has said that it’s a bogus excuse, and the government needs to hand over the info<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“There is a clear public interest in public knowledge of the methods through which well-connected corporate lobbyists wield their influence.”
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I’m still not sure what anyone expects to get out of these documents. We know who lobbied: the telcos did, like crazy. And the reason they did so is because they know they broke the law in assisting the administration in getting info<\/a> outside the official process. In fact, the recent revelations suggest the telcos didn’t just accede to administration demands, but they eagerly<\/i> assisted in explaining how to get around the rules. So of course they lobbied to get immunity.<\/p>\n

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For a while now, the EFF has been trying to get the White House to reveal information on who lobbied to get retroactive telco immunity for warrantless wiretapping. The “we’re all about transparency and openness” Obama administration has been stalling as much as possible, and while it released some info after a long fight, it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}