Crossed Wires

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 31, 2010

Christopher Hitchens, contributing editor to Vanity Fair
and
Arsalan Iftikhar, legal director of the Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR)
- are suing the Bush administration to find out if the NSA monitored their communications

» "Two Groups Planning to Sue Over Federal Eavesdropping" by Eric Lichtblau in The New York Times (free for one week from publishing date)
» Christopher Hitchens statement (ACLU)
» CAIR

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