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

[der Mouse]

> 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.

Aren't ex post facto laws unconstitutional there?  (Yes, I know that
wouldn't necessarily stop the current administration....)

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