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Privacy Group to Ask Supreme Court to Stop N.S.A.'s Phone Spying Program

Washington - A privacy rights group plans to file an emergency petition with the Supreme Court on Monday asking it to stop the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program that collects the telephone records of millions of Americans

The group, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, says it is taking the extraordinary legal step of going directly to the Supreme Court because the sweeping collection of the phone records of American citizens has created "exceptional circumstances" that only the nation's highest court can address. ========= rest:

- nothing yet about this on EPIC's website:

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