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Illegal surveillance lawsuit may be headed for secret court
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A lawsuit in San Francisco federal court accusing ATnT of illegally collaborating with the Bush administration's electronic surveillance of US citizens would be transferred to a secret court accessible only to the government under new legislation backed by the White House.

A provision of the bill introduced Thursday by rethug Sen. Arlen Specter would allow the government to move the ATnT case and all other lawsuits involving the surveillance program to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review in Washington.

The three-judge court meets behind closed doors and hears arguments only from the Justice Department.

"It is the Supreme Court's role to find out what the law of the land is, not some secret court in Washington, DC," said Kevin Bankston, a lawyer with the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco.