Judge Attacks Government Argument for Costly Changes to Networks

A federal appeals-court judge ripped into a lawyer at the Federal Communications Commission this month as the lawyer argued that the agency has the legal authority to require colleges and commercial Internet providers to re-engineer their networks so that the government can easily eavesdrop on online communications.

The judge, Harry T. Edwards, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, was one of three members of a panel hearing oral arguments in American

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