Verizon is currently facing a nasty lawsuit over its alleged disclosure of customer phone records to the National Security Agency (NSA). Last week, the company asked the court to dismiss the suit on the grounds that any disclosure was covered by the First Amendment. In case that doesn’t work, Verizon also continues to argue that even investigating the issue could violate state secrets.
But Verizon’s going full-bore with the free speech defense. The telco maintains that if the EFF and ACLU have concerns about the disclosure of customer call records, they should go after the government, not Verizon’s freedom of speech.
If all of that doesn’t work, the Bush administration has asked Congress to pass legislation immunizing all the telecommunications companies for cooperating in the administration’s warrantless wiretapping program.
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