Everyone should know just how much the government lied to defend the NSA | Trevor Timm
▻http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/17/government-lies-nsa-justice-department-supreme-court
Lawyers before the supreme court are under an ethical obligation to correct the record if they make false statements to the Court – even if they are unintentional – yet the Justice Department has so far refused. As ACLU deputy legal director Jameel Jaffer explained, the Justice Department has corrected the record in other cases where it was much less clear-cut whether it had misled the court.
The government’s response, instead, has been to explain why it doesn’t think these statements are lies.