After Government Hands Over Classified Evidence, Judge Reconsiders Ruling for Twitter in Transparency Suit
After receiving an in camera filing from the government, U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers indicated she thinks information that Twitter is seeking to publish about government requests "would pose grave or imminent harm to national security" if made public.
June 21, 2019 at 12:58 PM
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A federal judge in Oakland has indicated that she's likely to side with the federal government in its long-running dispute with Twitter Inc. over how much the company can disclose about national security-related requests from the government.
U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers of the Northern District of California wrote in an order issued Friday morning that the government presented her with new evidence in March arguing there was a reasonable expectation that information Twitter is seeking to publish “would pose grave or imminent harm to national security” if made public.
The new evidence, a declaration filed only to the judge in March by Michael C. McGarrity, acting executive assistant director of the National Security Branch of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has not been seen by Twitter's lawyers at Mayer Brown. Rogers wrote Monday that she was inclined to conclude that it “cannot be disclosed to counsel for Twitter based upon the national security concerns it raises.”
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