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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-17-06 11:08 AM
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Judge Orders Spying Documents Released
This story seems to be just beginning...
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eavesdropping;_ylt=AtnjnG6n_dAmstBD7lIl5Pms0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--

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WASHINGTON - A federal judge ordered the Bush administration on Thursday to release documents about its warrantless surveillance program or spell out what it is withholding, a setback to efforts to keep the program under wraps.
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At the same time, the Republican chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said he had worked out an agreement with the White House to consider legislation and provide more information to Congress on the eavesdropping program. The panel's top Democrat, who has requested a full-scale investigation, immediately objected to what he called an abdication of the committee's responsibilities.

U.S. District Judge Henry Kennedy ruled that a private group, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, will suffer irreparable harm if the documents it has been seeking since December are not processed promptly under the Freedom of Information Act. He gave the Justice Department 20 days to respond to the group's request.

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Jeffersons Ghost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-17-06 02:13 PM
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1. yep kentuck
and you're thread isn't ending, at least not until they silence the Ghost!
:kick:
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Jeffersons Ghost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-17-06 02:14 PM
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2. and here's a vote to go with it!
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