By Allan Lengel
ticklethewire.com
There was good news and bad news for Muslim activists who sued to get FBI files on their activities.
The bad news was that a federal judge in Santa Ana, Calif., ruled Wednesday that the groups cannot have access to most of the files because of national security issues, the Associated Press reported.
The consolation prize for the group was that the judge blasted the government for misleading the court about the existence of the files, AP reported.
“The government’s representations were then, and remain today, blatantly false,” Judge Cormac J. Carney wrote. “The government cannot, under any circumstance, affirmatively mislead the court.”
Six Muslim groups and five individuals sued the government in 2007 to gain access to records after they alleged the government was unlawfully targeting Muslims in Southern California, AP reported.
