The Associated Press
The American Civil Liberties Union renewed its challenge Thursday against the Bush administration’s filing of secret materials to a federal appeals court that will rule on its warrantless surveillance program. The government has filed the papers with the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and the ACLU wants those documents unsealed.
The court is considering the administration’s appeal of a Michigan federal judge’s decision last year that the program was unconstitutional because it violated privacy and free speech rights and the separation of powers.
The government has said the case involves state secrets and disclosure would threaten national security. Under the program, the National Security Agency monitors international phone calls and e-mails to or from the United States in which one party is believed to be linked to terrorism.
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