Court sides with Bush in wiretap suit
The Ninth Circuit — sometimes called the “Ninth Circus” — is the most liberal appeals court in the country, and the three judges who sat here are all Carter or Clinton appointees:
A federal appeals court in San Francisco today handed a major victory to the Bush administration, ruling that a lawsuit challenging the government’s warrantless wiretapping program could not go forward because of the “state secrets” privilege.
In a 3-0 decision, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the government, which had argued that allowing an Islamic charity’s claims that it was illegally spied upon to go forward would threaten national security.