The National Security Agency wouldn't have been barred from capturing normally protected communications between attorneys and their clients during its controversial warrantless surveillance program, the Justice Department told Congress on Friday. The DOJ said the same general criteria for the surveillance program would apply to lawyers' calls: One party must be outside the United States, and there must be reason to believe one party is linked to al-Qaida.
March 27, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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The National Security Agency would not have been barred from capturing communications between doctors and patients or attorneys and their clients during its controversial warrantless surveillance program, the Justice Department told Congress Friday.
Such communications normally receive special legal protections.
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