Newspaper Files Major Lawsuit, Force Bush Admin. To Release Illegal Wiretapping Docs...

US News By Chitra Ragavan and Liz Halloran March 21, 2006 at 11:50 PM
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The company that publishes the Oregonian newspaper in Portland has filed a motion in U.S. District Court in Oregon to unseal documents in a pending case that alleges the Bush administration illegally intercepted international phone conversations between the codirector of an Islamic charity and his two lawyers in the United States.

In a motion filed Friday, lawyers for the Oregonian Publishing Co. argued that it is in the public interest to know the contents of documents that could prove the existence of a potentially illegal domestic spying program.

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