Judge Lets Surveillance Suit Stand

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PORTLAND A federal judge Thursday rejected a Bush administration plea to throw out a lawsuit over the government's warrantless surveillance program, saying he is not convinced going ahead with the case would harm national security.

It is the latest of several differing rulings on a program the administration says is essential to fight terrorism, but that civil- liberties groups decry as an overreaching of presidential authority.

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Judge Lets Surveillance Suit Stand

U.S. District Judge Garr King said he believes there may be a way for the lawsuit, filed by a now...

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