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February 16, 2006
Judge to Justice: Turn over documents on warrantless eavesdropping
U.S. District Judge Henry Kennedy has ordered the Justice Department to comply with a Freedom of Information Act request by the Electronic Privacy Information Center for documents regarding that department's warrantless domestic spying program.
The Justice Department has been ordered to release the documents within 20 days or compile a list of what it is withholding. The department had said it would start to compile the documents on March 3, but did not know when the process would be complete.
The information was requested under an "expedited request." This is my favorite part:
"Routine FOIA requests are to be handled within 20 days while expedited requests have no set time limit under the law, prompting the Justice Department to take the position that the amount of time for expedited requests could be longer than that for the routine 20-day handling."
Posted by Nicole Duarte at February 16, 2006 04:06 PM
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