Government
May 26, 2020
US request to seal spy data can’t be given to ACLU, judge says
The ACLU was denied their request to access the government’s application to hide certain spy data from public access in a southern Lebanese Muslim defendant’s fraud case. But, U.S. Judge John A. Kronstadt gave the organization a chance to object to the prosecution’s other sealing requests, using what they already have that the defendant shared with them.
The American Civil Liberties Union can't access secret information submitted under seal by the federal government in its efforts to prosecute a Lebanese Muslim man for fraud, a federal judge ruled.
U.S. District Judge John A. Kronstadt of the Central District of California issued his order Thursday, blocking the ACLU's attempt to access federal prosecutors' application...
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