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[privacy] Citing Four-Day Old Surveillance Law, Bush Seeks Dismissal of Lawsuit Challenging NSA Spying
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 21:33:50 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via Threat Level. [snip] Four days after President Bush signed controversial legislation legalizing some warrantless surveillance of Americans, the administration is citing the law in a surprise motion today urging a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the NSA spy program. The lawsuit was brought by lawyers defending Guantanamo Bay prisoners. The lawyers and others alleged the threat of surveillance is chilling their First Amendment rights of speech, and their clients' right to legal representation. Justice Department lawyers are asking U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker to toss the case, citing the new law -- which says warrantless surveillance can continue for up to a year so long as one person in the intercepted communications is reasonably believed to be located outside of the United States. The motion is set to be heard in federal court in San Francisco this afternoon. [snip] More: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/08/citing-four-day.html - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.2 (Build 2014) wj8DBQFGu4g8q1pz9mNUZTMRAoKAAKDWi8KFvSHUB8SE0k+bO2p4oe8BvgCglUsV 1iTcY82xdYIKh16cX1XPiok= =GHWa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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