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| Permalink View Article Stats "State Secrets" Becomes Bush's New Tool to Avert Litigation Over Banking Records Quicklink submitted by Frank J. Ranelli (Add your own quicklinks easily with the OpEdNews Quick Link Browser bookmark) |
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| WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is signaling that it plans to turn again to a legal tool, the 'state secrets' privilege, to try to stop a suit against a Belgian banking cooperative that secretly supplied millions of private financial records to the U.S. government. Seeking to end public discussion of cases like the NSA's eavesdropping program, the Bush administration has summoned this legal tactic more than 30 times. |
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