In this San Francisco Chronicle news article, it was been reported that the Justice Department has notified lawyers suing to stop the NSA's wiretapping of American citizen's phones that "military and state secrets privilege'' will be invoked to squash the lawsuit:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/05/13/MNG94IRGO01.DTLIn this MSNBC news article, however, the Justice Department claims that it doesn't have the security clearances needed to investigate the NSA's wiretapping:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12727867/from/RSS/Does the Justice Department have enough clearance to know that the NSA's wiretapping falls under the "military and state secrets privilege,'' or are they simply doing their Master's bidding?
Just asking.
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