In an otherwise bleak climate for civil liberties, chalk one up for the Bill of Rights. The New York Times headline read: “Librarians Win As U.S. Relents On Secrecy Law.”
Time to pop the cork? Well, not exactly. The government’s appeal of U.S. District Judge Janet Hall’s decision in Anonymous v. Alberto Gonzalez et al. is being withdrawn. The identity of “Anonymous” has been an open secret for months despite the ferocious insistence by the government that disclosure would jeopardize a counter-terrorism investigation in Connecticut. The deleted named plaintiff is the Library Connection of Windsor.
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