At issue in the case is whether Twitter‘s rights are being violated by the government’s refusal to let it publish certain information.
Attorney General William Barr has asserted the state secrets privilege for the first known time since he was sworn in last month, using the controversial legal tool in a lawsuit brought by the social media company Twitter over its bid to publish a more complete account of government surveillance requests.invoking the privilege Friday night with a federal judge in Oakland, Calif. who has been handling the suit Twitter filed more than four years ago.
Barr said the Justice Department will not to give the lawyers access to the classified statement from former Executive Assistant Director Michael Steinbach. Should the judge insist that the Twitter attorneys have access, the government will shut the litigation down via the state secrets privilege, a legal mechanism to limit or end litigation that could impact U.S. national security, the attorney general said.
Candidate Barack Obama vowed reforms and, after his election, the Justice Department instituted a more elaborate procedure for reviewing state-secrets assertions.EmailBy signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or alerts from POLITICO. You can unsubscribe at any time. While Barr’s declaration appears to be his first state-secrets assertion in his current tenure as attorney generals, the privilege has been deployed on several other occasions under President Donald Trump.
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