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Disloyal Opposition
by JD Tuccille

04/13/09

Last week, I reported that the Obama administration is continuing Bush administration arguments that evidence of some government abuses is a ’state secret’ beyond the reach of the courts. Recently, Justice Department lawyers made just that claim in a case involving allegations of warrantless wiretapping by the National Security Agency. But the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an online civil liberties group which represents plaintiffs in that case, says the Obama administration has also raised novel arguments that the government can’t be sued even if it did engage in illegal wiretapping...

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