DETROIT - The Justice Department on Friday asked a federal appeals court to throw out a lower court decision that said the Bush administration's warrantless surveillance program is unconstitutional.
The president has said the program is needed to detect terrorists. Opponents argue it oversteps constitutional boundaries on free speech, privacy and executive powers.
Government lawyers said in pleadings filed Friday with the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati that the surveillance program "is necessary to protect the nation from an ongoing national security threat of the highest order and is vital to waging and winning the ongoing armed conflict."
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