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Congress Seeks Surveillance Documents
The ACLU wants that ruling to be released publicly _ which would be a near-unprecedented move by the court that deals solely with classified information.
"Publication of these secret court orders is vitally important to the ongoing debate about government surveillance," said ACLU attorney Jameel Jaffer. "The public has a right to firsthand information about what the court permitted and what it disallowed."
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Associated Press writer Lara Jakes Jordan contributed to this report.
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