Nick Divito reports:
The Justice Department lost its bid Thursday to delay the ACLU challenge to the National Security Agency’s data-collecting program as a federal judge reminded government lawyers they were in a courtroom not a marketplace.
“This is not a bazaar, it’s a courtroom,” the peeved U.S. District Judge William Pauley said before dismissing the federal government’s request to reschedule.
Uncle Sam argued that it needed more time to declassify hundreds of documents.
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