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Court Rejects "States Secret" Assertion in NSA Wiretapping Case
It's been a tough few weeks for the Administration's broad assertions of executive power. First, the Supreme Court held in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld that the plan to use military tribunals to try detainees held in Guantanamo Bay violated the Geneva Convention and U.S. law. Then, on July 20, a federal district court in California rejected the government's motion to dismiss, on grounds of the "state secrets" privilege, claims against AT&T for allegedly cooperating with the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping program.
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