January 18, 2006

Area group challenges Bush's spy program

The Council on American Islamic Relations, and a host of other individuals have initiated the first legal challenge to the Bush administration\'s controversial domestic spying program with a lawsuit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Detroit . The lawsuit seeks to have the program declared unconstitutional. The plaintiffs also want the government to reveal the details of its surveillance. Wayne State University Law Professor Peter Henning says the Justice Department should immediately ask that the lawsuit be tossed out on procedural grounds, including whether the plaintiffs were actually harmed. \"How do you show harm? The cops could break into your house right now and just because you\'re afraid they might doesn\'t give you grounds to sue,\" Henning said.

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