Feds Reject Lawsuit Against Illegal Wiretaps

Amy Goldstein / The Washington Post:
A federal appeals court removed a serious legal challenge to the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program, overruling the only judge who held that a controversial surveillance effort by the National Security Agency was unconstitutional. Two members of a three-judge panel of the Cincinnati-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit ordered the dismissal of a major lawsuit that challenged the wiretapping, which President Bush authorized secretly to eavesdrop on communications involving potential terrorists shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Posted by Editor at July 7, 2007 03:29 AM