[Infowarrior] - Citing Four-Day Old Law, Bush Seeks Dismissal of NSA Spying suit

[Richard Forno]

BREAKING: Citing Four-Day Old Surveillance Law, Bush Seeks Dismissal of
Lawsuit Challenging NSA Spying
Thursday, August 09 2007 @ 03:52 PM CDT
Contributed by: PrivacyNews
News Section: In the Courts

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 dismisss 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 (.pdf) 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. THREAT LEVEL will be there.

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