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Associated PressA federal judge today tossed out a lawsuit that accused a San Jose-based Boeing Co. subsidiary of illegally helping the CIA secretly fly terrorism suspects to overseas prisons to be tortured.
U.S. District Court Judge James Ware ruled that national security could be jeopardized if the lawsuit was allowed to go forward.
CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden had earlier invoked the government's so-called "state secrets privilege," which lets intelligence agencies bar the use of evidence in court cases that jeopardize national security.
In public and confidential statements filed with the court, Hayden urged the judge to dismiss the lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union against San Jose-based Jeppesen Dataplan Inc. because he said that covert operations overseas could be exposed.
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