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This week, lawyers for the government filed a secret brief seeking dismissal of a case against AT&T. The suit was brought by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and challenges AT&T's cooperation with the National Security Administration's domestic surveillance program. The brief apparently seeks dismissal of the case because allowing it to go forward would endanger national security. Asked to comment on the government's position, an NSA spokesman responded that "Well, that's a secret. Furthermore, the government wants to keep its tactical advantage. More often than not, we find that our arguments do not fare well when they are made public. When our arguments are kept secret, however, the public seems to find them much more convincing."