[Infowarrior] - Court says eavesdropping program can continue

[Richard Forno]

Court says eavesdropping program can continue
Wed Oct 4, 2006 4:21 PM ET
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - The government can continue to use its warrantless
domestic wiretap program pending the Justice Department's appeal of a
federal judge's ruling outlawing the program, an Appeals Court in Cincinnati
ruled on Wednesday.

The ruling overturned District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor's decision last week
to deny a lengthy stay in the case, which is expected to end up with the
Supreme Court.

In August, Taylor ruled that the National Security Agency's five-year-old
surveillance program, implemented as part of the government's war on
terrorism, violates the civil rights of Americans.

The American Civil Liberties Union filed the suit in March on behalf of
scholars, attorneys, journalists and non-profit groups that regularly
communicate with people in the Middle East.