] WASHINGTON, March 24 — In a case balancing national
] security with civil liberties, the Supreme Court refused
] to interfere today with a lower court ruling giving the
] Justice Department broad new powers to use wiretaps to
] prosecute terrorists.
]
] The justices declined without comment to review a
] decision last Nov. 18 in which a special federal appeals
] court found that, under a law passed after the terror
] attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the Justice Department can use
] wiretaps installed for intelligence operations to go
] after terrorists.

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