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Government

Aug. 22, 2006

Judge Refuses to Sacrifice Liberty on Altar of National Security

Forum Column - Three cheers for Vaughn Walker. Vaughn who? you ask. Until very recently, he was also unknown to lawyers and policy makers in the White House.

Forum Column

By Peter Scheer



Three cheers for Vaughn Walker.
      Vaughn who? you ask. Until very recently, he was also unknown to lawyers and policy makers in the White House. But in a recent ruling the unassuming chief judge of the U.S. District Court in San Francisco dropped a judicial bomb.
      In a suit against AT&T for alleged collaboration in the National Secu...

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