James Bond’s old nemesis SMERSH (from shmert shpionam, or “death to spies”) may file a brief today on behalf of the ironically Stalinist US Government in Courtroom 6 at 450 Golden Gate Avenue at the 9:30a.m. hearing on the Hepting vs. AT&T suit. Or they may not. How would we know, since the US Government has pulled something called “the State Secrets Act” out of its ass to deprive the public of information regarding the case?

Here is the redacted testimony of J. Scott Marcus taken earlier this month in the case which revolves around the government using AT&T facilities to spy on private citizens. (Adobe Acrobat required). Redacted means that the government censors cut out the parts that we, the public, shouldn’t be allowed to see.

Maybe I’ll skip the BloggerCon National Anthem session in order to go down to the Federal Court and learn first hand what BushCo has on its collective Orwellian mind.