NYT: "Defense lawyers in some of the country's biggest terrorism cases say they plan to bring legal challenges to determine whether the National Security Agency used illegal wiretaps against several dozen Muslim men tied to Al Qaeda. ... Some Justice Department prosecutors, speaking on condition of anonymity because the program remains classified, said they were concerned that the agency's wiretaps without warrants could create problems for the department in terrorism prosecutions both past and future. 'If I'm a defense attorney,' one prosecutor said, 'the first thing I'm going to say in court is, 'This was an illegal wiretap.''"

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Posted by Laura at December 27, 2005 10:36 PM