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January 16, 2009

FISA Court Orders Telecoms to Aid Gov’t Spying
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Back in the United States, a secret federals appeals court has ruled
telecommunications companies must help the government monitor email and
phone calls of Americans suspected of being terrorists or spies. The
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ruling came down in August but
has only just been publicly disclosed. The ruling came in response to an
unidentified company’s legal challenge to the 2007 FISA law OKing
warantless spying.



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