Tape Recording Snafu Leads To Do-over Court Hearing
From the Associated Press
Call it a mulligan or a do-over.
There will be a rare judicial repeat today of oral arguments in a historically significant case touching on some of the surveillance issues raised by Edward Snowden.
The reason? Staff at the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago failed to turn on a courtroom tape recorder during the initial hearing last week.
The court explained later that U.S. agents had swept the courtroom earlier in the day Wednesday for bugging devises. And the staff assumed — incorrectly — that all recordings were forbidden.
Without the audio recording there was no record of proceedings.
The case has to do with a lower court's ruling to let lawyers for accused terrorist Adel Daoud review secret intelligence-court records. The government wants that ruling reversed.
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From the Associated Press
Call it a mulligan or a do-over.
There will be a rare judicial repeat today of oral arguments in a historically significant case touching on some of the surveillance issues raised by Edward Snowden.
The reason? Staff at the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago failed to turn on a courtroom tape recorder during the initial hearing last week.
The court explained later that U.S. agents had swept the courtroom earlier in the day Wednesday for bugging devises. And the staff assumed — incorrectly — that all recordings were forbidden.
Without the audio recording there was no record of proceedings.
The case has to do with a lower court's ruling to let lawyers for accused terrorist Adel Daoud review secret intelligence-court records. The government wants that ruling reversed.
Read more in our daily News Update...