Share | CommonDreams.org

From this page you can share US Cites 'Secrets' Privilege as It Tries to Stop Suit on Banking Records to a social bookmarking site or email a link to the page.

Social Web	E-mail
Twitter StumbleUpon Facebook Delicious Digg Newsvine Google Yahoo Technorati	Your Email: * Your Name: * Send To: * Enter multiple addresses on separate lines or separate them with commas. You are going to email the following: US Cites 'Secrets' Privilege as It Tries to Stop Suit on Banking Records Message Subject: (Your Name) has forwarded an article to you from CommonDreams.org: US Cites 'Secrets' Privilege as It Tries to Stop Suit on Banking Records Message Body: (Your Name) forwarded this article to you from CommonDreams.org. Sign up here if you would like to receive daily news from CommonDreams.org. Your Personal Message: *
US Cites 'Secrets' Privilege as It Tries to Stop Suit on Banking Records WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 - The Bush administration is signaling that it plans to turn again to a legal tool, the "state secrets" privilege, to try to stop a suit against a Belgian banking cooperative that secretly supplied millions of private financial records to the United States government, court documents show. The suit against the consortium, known as Swift, threatens to disrupt the operations of a vital national security program and to disclose "highly classified information" if it continues, the Justice Department has said in court filings.

Social Web

E-mail

Twitter
StumbleUpon
Facebook
Delicious
Digg
Newsvine
Google
Yahoo
Technorati

US Cites 'Secrets' Privilege as It Tries to Stop Suit on Banking Records

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 - The Bush administration is signaling that it plans to turn again to a legal tool, the "state secrets" privilege, to try to stop a suit against a Belgian banking cooperative that secretly supplied millions of private financial records to the United States government, court documents show.

The suit against the consortium, known as Swift, threatens to disrupt the operations of a vital national security program and to disclose "highly classified information" if it continues, the Justice Department has said in court filings.