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Government

Jun. 27, 2007

Verizon Claims First Amendment in Wiretapping

SAN FRANCISCO - One of the country's largest telecommunications companies has triggered a free-speech battle while defending charges that it helped the federal government illegally snoop on its customers.

By Amelia Hansen
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      SAN FRANCISCO - One of the country's largest telecommunications companies has triggered a free-speech battle while defending charges that it helped the federal government illegally snoop on its customers.
      Verizon Communications continues to deny that it assisted a highly controversial warrantless domestic surveillance program, but conten...

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