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ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The American Civil Liberties Union asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to review a legal challenge to the warrantless domestic spying program that President George W. Bush created after the September 11 attacks.
The civil liberties group challenged a U.S. appeals court ruling that said the organizations and individuals that sued the government had no legal right to do so because they could not prove they had been affected by the spying program.
Bush authorized the surveillance program to monitor the international phone calls and e-mails of U.S. citizens without first obtaining a court warrant. The appeals court overturned a federal judge's ruling that the program was unconstitutional.
The journalists, scholars, attorneys and national advocacy organizations who filed the lawsuit maintained that the government's illegal surveillance had compromised their ability to do their jobs and disrupted their ability to communicate with sources and clients.
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