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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Civil rights lawyers sued the Bush administration Wednesday over a Treasury Department terrorist watch list, asking a federal court to order the release of documents on the secretive program.
The Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, which filed the Freedom of Information Act lawsuit in U.S. District Court here, says the government list sometimes wrongly snags innocent people.
The lawsuit comes nearly two years after the attorneys' group invoked the act to request documents from the Treasury Department on complaints from people mistakenly ensnared by the list, and department policies regarding the list.
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