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The Justice Department feels it has good reason to hide info in a Southern California lawsuit filed by Muslims who claim the FBI monitored them because of their religion.
The Associated Press reports that Attorney General Eric Holder, in a court filing on Monday, invoked state secrets rules to try and prevent information from being released in the case.
The filing argues that disclosure of the target of the 2006 surveillance at a mosque could hurt national security.
The story was first reported by Josh Gerstein of Politico.
In February, the ACLU of Southern California and the Los Angeles office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations sued the FBI, AP reported.
