[privacy] Wiretap Case: 'Drop It,' Say Feds

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Checks and balances? The executive branch trying muscle the
judicial branch?

Via Wired News (AP).

[snip]

The Bush administration asked an appeals court Thursday to step in
immediately and dismiss a lawsuit over the government's warrantless
eavesdropping program, calling a lower judge's ruling dangerous and wrong.

The Justice Department asked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to
overturn the decision earlier this month by U.S. District Judge Garr
King in Portland, Ore., that kept the suit alive. Government attorneys
argued that continuing the case would risk the disclosure of "highly
sensitive foreign intelligence information."

[snip]

More:
http://www.wired.com/news/wireservice/0,71831-0.html

- ferg


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