Southern District Judge Lewis Kaplan on Monday rejected a bid for an injunction blocking government eavesdropping on lawyers representing Osama bin Laden's son-in-law, Sulaiman Abu Gayth. Stanley Cohen, who represents Abu Gayth, argued that recent revelations of widespread data collection by the National Security Agency and other government programs compromised his communications with his client and his fellow lawyers and had a chilling effect on witnesses. But Assistant U.S. Attorney John Cronan called the allegations "completely speculative."
"Let me be clear," Cronan told the judge, "the prosecution team has had absolutely no exposure whatsoever to any privileged communications" between Cohen, his client or any member of the Abu Gayth team.
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