'State Secret' Is Not a One-Size-Fits-All Defense ; Federal Lawyers Argue the President Doesn't Have to Answer to Congress or the Courts.
Portland Press Herald › June 14, 2006
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It's an argument that would have made even George Orwell blush.
A government lawyer told a federal judge in Detroit on Tuesday that President Bush was empowered by the Constitution to authorize the warrantless wiretapping of international calls made by Americans to suspected terrorists.See the full content of this document
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'State Secret' Is Not a One-Size-Fits-All Defense ; Federal Lawyers Argue the President Doesn't Have to Answer to Congress or the Courts.
But the lawyer said he couldn't prove it because to do so would jeopardize national security.
The only fair resoluti...See the full content of this document
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