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Justice Department refuses request for legal opinion concerning FBI surveillance

donal brown November 15, 2011

The Justice Department has refused a request by the Electronic Frontier Foundation for an important legal opinon on the use of “exigent letters,” a method of requesting information that includes telephone company records. In refusing to disclose the legal opinion, the DOJ cited national security concerns. -db From Politico, November 11, 2011, by Josh Gerstein. Full story    

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ACLU obtains document detailing CIA torture program

donal brown August 25, 2009

In response to an ACLU Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, the government turned over documents describing the interrogation techniques used by the CIA as late as 2007. -DB American Civil Liberties Union Press Release August 24, 2009 NEW YORK – The government today handed over to the American Civil Liberties Union a detailed official description of the CIA’s interrogation program. That document, a December 2004 CIA background paper sent to the Justice Department’s Office of Legal

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