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Court rejects challenge to warrantless wiretaps
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| News Date | Friday, November 16, 2007 06:35:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By Henry Weinstein, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
10:36 AM PST, November 16, 2007
A federal appeals court in San Francisco today handed a major victory to the Bush administration, ruling that a lawsuit challenging the government's warrantless wiretapping program could not go forward because of the "state secrets" privilege.
In a 3-0 decision, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the government, which had argued that allowing an Islamic charity's claims that it was illegally spied upon to go forward would threaten national security.
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