The US appeals court in San Francisco on Monday agreed with a lower-court judge that the Justice Department had shown a “compelling” interest in keeping that information secret.
A lawyer for Twitter referred a request for comment on the decision to the company; a company spokesperson didn’t respond. A Justice Department spokesperson declined to comment.Although the case is almost a decade old, the ruling comes just as lawmakers and US national security agencies gear up for a bruising fight over making changes to a key surveillance program., described by intelligence officials as a key authority, expires on Dec. 31 unless Congress votes to renew it.
Changes to Section 702 could include altering what companies like Twitter are required to do in response to government demands. Conservatives have also seized on “the Twitter Files,” information released by Twitter’s new owner, Elon Musk, about how the platform decided to handle certain politically freighted news.The House Intelligence Committee plans to question national security officials on US spy programs during a hearing Thursday on global threats.
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