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Source: The Sault Star
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Date: December 19, 2008


TORONTO — Lawyers still seething after learning Canada's spy agency had been listening to their phone calls with their suspected terrorist clients were demanding answers from the government Friday along with assurances the practice would cease in three other cases.

In addition, they demanded to know on an "urgent basis" how the government planned to destroy records of already intercepted calls.

"We have no explanation yet but I am not finished with this," said lawyer Marlys Edwardh.

Edwardh, who along with Barb Jackman represents Mohammad Mahjoub, said she was "just apoplectic" when she discovered the Canadian Security Intelligence Service had been listening in on their calls with their client.

The information emerged publicly Thursday when Federal Court Judge Carolyn Layden-Stevenson released information supplied at a secret hearing by a senior spy-service agent.

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