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3. Thanks for posting that from WaPo...
Thu Jan 30, 2014, 12:16 PM
Jan 2014

Want to read the whole piece in more detail ..but, this is interesting from the article:

In a related development in a different terrorism case, a federal judge in Chicago for the first time ordered that a defense lawyer be allowed to review classified evidence obtained under FISA. In the law’s 36-year history, no defense attorney has ever been permitted to view such material, with courts deferring to government arguments that to do so would harm national security.

But in an order issued Wednesday, Judge Sharon J. Coleman said, “This court believes that the probable value of disclosure and the risk of nondisclosure outweigh the potential danger” of allowing the attorney, with proper clearances, to see the material.


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