President George W. Bush has exceeded the powers of his office by allowing eavesdropping on conversations of Americans, including lawyers and journalists, according to federal suits seeking to ban the practice and require judicial oversight. The Center for Constitutional Rights must assume that conversations its lawyers had with hundreds of people were subject to the secret government program to intercept phone calls and Internet communications, according to a federal lawsuit filed in Manhattan.
January 18, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
President George W. Bush has exceeded the powers of his office by allowing eavesdropping on conversations of Americans, including lawyers and journalists, according to federal lawsuits seeking to ban the practice.
“No president I’ve ever seen or read about has ever claimed so much power for himself,” Center for Constitutional Rights Legal Director Bill Goodman said Tuesday after his organization sued in Manhattan to stop the practice and require judicial oversight.
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