The Daily Background
| DoJ ordered by federal judge to release SpyGate docs
by Arlen Parsa
Britain-based international mega-newswire Reuters is reporting that a U.S. Federal judge has ordered the Justice Department to release all documents relating to President Bush’s warrentless wiretapping program, within 20 days.
This was in response to a lawsuit brought by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) which sued the DoJ after the Department flat out refused to release documents under a EPIC Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.
FOIA is legislation which allows for the public and the press to request information kept by the government on virtually any topic, providing that it is not classified (often times in a case of classified or sensetive information, FOIA releases will be heavily redacted with black markers, and the request will be filed).
Hat tip- ThinkProgress
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