[privacy] Judge Rules Against U.S. Government in Warrantless Surveillance Cases

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via NewsDay.com (AP).

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A federal judge in California ruled Tuesday against the federal
government's attempts to stop investigations in five states, including
Connecticut, of President Bush's domestic spying program.

U.S. District Chief Judge Vaughn Walker last winter was assigned to hear
arguments in the federal government's attempt to stop Maine regulators from
forcing Verizon to say whether it provided customer call records to the
government without a warrant. Similar cases in Missouri, New Jersey,
Connecticut and Vermont were combined with the Maine case.

The Department of Justice was seeking to stop the investigations of phone
records based on the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution, the foreign
affairs power of the federal government and the state secrets privilege.

In a 35-page ruling, Walker dismissed the government's request to stop the
investigations, ruling that neither the Supremacy Clause nor the foreign
affairs power of the government prevented a state from asking about phone
records.

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More:
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/connecticut/ny-bc-ct--domesticspying
0724jul24,0,126669.story

- - ferg

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