Group sues for terror watch list
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SAN FRANCISCO- Civil rights lawyers sued the Bush administration Wednesday over
a Treasury Department terrorist watch list, asking a federal court to order the
release of documents on the secretive program.
The Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, which
filed the Freedom of Information Act lawsuit in U.S. District Court here, says
the government list sometimes wrongly snags innocent people.
The suit comes nearly two years after the attorneys' group invoked the act to
request documents from the Treasury Department on complaints from people
mistakenly ensnared by the list, and department policies regarding the list.
According to the group, the department refused to provide its policies,
asserting that they were not covered by the Freedom of Information Act, and said
it did not track complaints.
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