New York Times: Test Case to Warrantless Wiretapping Might Be Getting Primed

The New York Times' Charlie Savage reports: "Five years after Congress authorized a sweeping warrantless surveillance program, the Justice Department is setting up a potential Supreme Court test of whether it is constitutional by notifying a criminal defendant — for the first time — that evidence against him derived from the eavesdropping, according to officials." The disclosure will be made after an internal debate within the DOJ on wheterh such disclosure is legally necessary.