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Criminal

Nov. 20, 2002

Court Approves Domestic Spying

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration won a major legal battle Monday when a special appellate court in its first published opinion in 24 years of existence upheld the government's broad freedom to spy on terrorist suspects in the United States, though limiting Attorney General John D. Ashcroft's foreign surveillance authority to matters beyond solely criminal prosecution.

        
By James Gordon Meek
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        WASHINGTON - The Bush administration won a major legal battle Monday when a special appellate court in its first published opinion in 24 years of existence upheld the government's broad freedom to spy on terrorist suspec...

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