Government Keeps Trying To Get AT&T Case Thrown Out

Now it is Asst A.G. Peter Keisler who is warning of the ramifications of going through with the "legal" process in the AT&T/NSA spying program.

(Reuters)"In cases such as this one, where the national security of the United States is implicated, it is well established that the executive branch is best positioned to judge the potential effects of disclosure of sensitive information on the nation's security," they wrote in a filing on Wednesday evening.

"Indeed, the Supreme Court has repeatedly recognized that courts are ill-equipped as an institution to judge harm to national security."

It's more like they want to control not judge potential effects.