[privacy] Citing Four-Day Old Surveillance Law, Bush Seeks Dismissal of Lawsuit Challenging NSA Spying

[Paul Ferguson]

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Via Threat Level.

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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.

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More:
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/08/citing-four-day.html

- - ferg

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