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Court Limits Lawsuits Over Government Surveillance

NPR | By Ari Shapiro
Published July 6, 2007 at 4:00 PM EDT

A federal appeals court has ruled that civil liberties groups have no standing to challenge President Bush's domestic eavesdropping program in court.

The court ruled that only people who can demonstrate that they've been spied on have the right to sue. The records of who's been wiretapped are top secret, so it's not likely that anyone would ever be able to demonstrate that he or she had been a target of the program.

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