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ACLU: Government seeks \'secret\' document
Thursday, December 14, 2006 · Last updated 3:02 a.m. PT
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1110AP_Secret_Document.html
ACLU: Government seeks 'secret' document
By LARRY NEUMEISTER
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
NEW YORK -- The American Civil Liberties Union says there's nothing particularly remarkable about a classified document it received this fall - nothing except the government's efforts to get it back.
The civil rights group said this week that it was handed a grand jury subpoena from the U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan on Nov. 20, nearly a month after the ACLU received the document unsolicited and soon after it refused to comply with a prosecutor's demands to turn it over.
The ACLU filed papers under seal in U.S. District Court seeking a judicial order letting it keep the 3 1/2-page document, which it said pertains to anti-terrorism efforts. The group called the government's move an attempt to discourage scrutiny.
Romero said the subpoena served no legitimate investigative purpose and trampled on fundamental First Amendment rights, adding that it was the "first time in our 86-year history we've been asked to make a document disappear from our files."
The U.S. Attorney's Office had no immediate comment, spokeswoman Yusill Scribner said.
The ACLU did not reveal the content of the document but said it "provides a set of general policy guidelines on a matter of long-standing concern to the ACLU."
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People sending 'secret documents' to the ACLU... Now that Congress is controlled by the Democrats look for SCANDALS in the future to make Watergate look like a burglary...
HINT TO WHISTLE BLOWERS: Send embarassing documents to the Washington Post, NY Times, Keith Olbermann or Lou Dobbs
TheCigMan
Thursday, December 14, 2006 · Last updated 3:02 a.m. PT
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1110AP_Secret_Document.html
ACLU: Government seeks 'secret' document
By LARRY NEUMEISTER
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
NEW YORK -- The American Civil Liberties Union says there's nothing particularly remarkable about a classified document it received this fall - nothing except the government's efforts to get it back.
The civil rights group said this week that it was handed a grand jury subpoena from the U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan on Nov. 20, nearly a month after the ACLU received the document unsolicited and soon after it refused to comply with a prosecutor's demands to turn it over.
The ACLU filed papers under seal in U.S. District Court seeking a judicial order letting it keep the 3 1/2-page document, which it said pertains to anti-terrorism efforts. The group called the government's move an attempt to discourage scrutiny.
Romero said the subpoena served no legitimate investigative purpose and trampled on fundamental First Amendment rights, adding that it was the "first time in our 86-year history we've been asked to make a document disappear from our files."
The U.S. Attorney's Office had no immediate comment, spokeswoman Yusill Scribner said.
The ACLU did not reveal the content of the document but said it "provides a set of general policy guidelines on a matter of long-standing concern to the ACLU."
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People sending 'secret documents' to the ACLU... Now that Congress is controlled by the Democrats look for SCANDALS in the future to make Watergate look like a burglary...
HINT TO WHISTLE BLOWERS: Send embarassing documents to the Washington Post, NY Times, Keith Olbermann or Lou Dobbs
TheCigMan