Five civil liberty advocacy organizations filed a motion to participate in oral argumentsrn(http://1.usa.gov/1hGltEj) backing five major tech companies' effort to release more information aboutrngovernment surveillance requests (CD Oct 3 p5). The advocacy organizations “have substantial experiencernin advancing arguments rooted in the public interest in open judicial proceedings,” said the motionrnsubmitted to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. “Our participation in oral argument would, wernsubmit, assist the Court in its deliberations, facilitate the public’s understanding and evaluation of governmentrnsurveillance programs, and provide transparency to a judicial oversight process that has been thernsubject of considerable discussion, some accurate, some not.” The group had previously filed a brief inrnsupport of the tech companies, led by Google and Microsoft. The organizations hoping to participate arernthe First Amendment Coalition, the American Civil Liberties UUnion, the Center for Democracy and Technology,rnthe Electronic Frontier Foundation and TechFreedom.
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