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Two civil rights groups sue over US spy program

NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE , WASHINGTON

One of the ACLU plaintiffs, Larry Diamond, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute, said that a Stanford student studying in Egypt conducts research for him on political opposition groups, and that he worried that communications between them on sensitive political topics could be monitored.

"How can we communicate effectively if you risk being intercepted by the National Security Agency?" Diamond said.

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