Newspaper sues for documents in NSA wiretap case

Newspaper sues for documents in NSA wiretap case
By Chitra Ragavan and Liz Halloran

Posted 3/21/06

The company that publishes the Oregonian newspaper in Portland has filed a motion in U.S. District Court in Oregon to unseal documents in a pending case that alleges the Bush administration illegally intercepted international phone conversations between the codirector of an Islamic charity and his two lawyers in the United States.

In a motion filed Friday, lawyers for the Oregonian Publishing Co. argued that it is in the public interest to know the contents of documents that could prove the existence of a potentially illegal domestic spying program.

"This appears to be the first case in which documents have been filed with the court demonstrating the National Security Agency's practice of wiretapping private conversations," said Charles F. Hinkle, a lawyer for the publishing company. "We are not interested in the content of the attorney-client communications. We are interested in what the government did."

lots more - http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/060321/21oregon.htm

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disclaimer: the Oregonian still sucks

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eat all you want, they'll be more.

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