Another Major NSA Legal Defeat for the Bush Administration

From Glenn Greenwald's Unclaimed Territory:

A federal judge in Oregon yesterday became the third consecutive judge (after Judge Walker in the Northern District of California and Judge Taylor in the Eastern District of Michigan) to reject the Bush administration's claim that national security concerns (i.e., the "state secrets" doctrine) bar courts from ruling on the legality of the NSA warrantless eavesdropping program. The ruling (.pdf), from Federal Judge Garr King, resoundingly rejected the Bush administration's now-standard tactic for placing the President's conduct beyond the reach of the law, and Judge King used reasoning identical to that used by the two prior federal judges who also rejected the Bush administration's claims.

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