In re September 11 Litigation

*165 OPINION AND ORDER REGULATING TESTIMONY AT DEPOSITIONS WHEN ANSWERS MIGHT CONTAIN SSI

HELLERSTEIN, District Judge.

I write to rule on a strange and significant phenomenon. The Transportation Security Administration (“TSA”), having first intervened in these actions to protect Sensitive Security Information (“SSI”), declines to at*166tend noticed depositions of the airline defendants, where testimony is likely to contain such information. Instead, TSA seeks to impose on defendants’ counsel the obligation to object and prevent answers that might disclose SSI. Counsel for defendants, believing that…