<story><title>U.S. judge blocks Twitter&apos;s bid to reveal government surveillance requests</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-twitter-lawsuit/u-s-judge-blocks-twitters-bid-to-reveal-government-surveillance-requests-idUSKBN2200CS</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hf8665</author><text>Does anyone know why judges are so deferential to the US security apparatus? It seems in general like they have a clear bias toward &amp;quot;taking the security system at its word&amp;quot;, even when common sense would dictate otherwise in any particular case. It&amp;#x27;s sincerely puzzling to me why national security entities seem to get treated so differently and I wonder if there&amp;#x27;s some legal precedent or consideration I&amp;#x27;m not aware of.&lt;p&gt;Like in this case, I fail to understand how releasing the &lt;i&gt;number&lt;/i&gt; of requests would have any security bearing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lokar</author><text>If what you mean is why do most of the judges tend to rule the same way in this area, it&amp;#x27;s due to precedent, they don&amp;#x27;t really have a choice.  The balance (or lack of one) you note was mostly established by higher courts years ago.</text></comment>
<story><title>U.S. judge blocks Twitter&apos;s bid to reveal government surveillance requests</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-twitter-lawsuit/u-s-judge-blocks-twitters-bid-to-reveal-government-surveillance-requests-idUSKBN2200CS</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hf8665</author><text>Does anyone know why judges are so deferential to the US security apparatus? It seems in general like they have a clear bias toward &amp;quot;taking the security system at its word&amp;quot;, even when common sense would dictate otherwise in any particular case. It&amp;#x27;s sincerely puzzling to me why national security entities seem to get treated so differently and I wonder if there&amp;#x27;s some legal precedent or consideration I&amp;#x27;m not aware of.&lt;p&gt;Like in this case, I fail to understand how releasing the &lt;i&gt;number&lt;/i&gt; of requests would have any security bearing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LatteLazy</author><text>When the government pays your salary and controls your workload and picks whether you get promoted...</text></comment>