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"Feds: Block lawyers from classified document."

"Feds: Block lawyers from classified document." Today in The San Francisco Chronicle, Bob Egelko has an article that begins, "The Obama administration filed an emergency request with a federal appeals court Friday to stop a judge in San Francisco from allowing lawyers challenging the government's wiretapping program to see a classified surveillance document. The document is the central evidence in the last remaining lawsuit over the legality of former President George W. Bush's 2001 order for the National Security Administration to intercept phone calls and e-mails between Americans and suspected terrorists in other nations."

And at the "Legal Beat" blog of CQ Politics, Keith Perine has a post titled "Justice Department Again Defends Bush on State Secrets."

Full post as published by How Appealing on February 21, 2009 (boomark / email).