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Judge Dismisses Phone Records Lawsuit

By MIKE ROBINSON
Associated Press Writer

July 25, 2006, 4:35 PM EDT

CHICAGO -- Citing national security, a federal judge Tuesday threw out a lawsuit aimed
at blocking AT&T from giving telephone records to the government for use in the war
on terror.

"The court is persuaded that requiring AT&T to confirm or deny whether it has disclosed
large quantities of telephone records to the federal government could give adversaries
of this country valuable insight into the government's intelligence activities," U.S.
District Judge Matthew F. Kennelly said.

Kennelly ruled in a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois
on behalf of author Studs Terkel and other activists who said their constitutional rights
were violated because of a National Security Agency program of gathering phone company
records.

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