Ben Wizner says the administration is asking the judge to block the case because it might reveal state secrets.
Mr. BEN WIZNER (Attorney, ACLU): This was apparently a case of mistaken identity.
"The phone is ringing off the hook, " said Mr. Wizner as he skinned a 250-pound black bear in his driveway.
WSJ: After Long Hibernation, Taxidermists Make a Killing During Bear Season
The renewed hunt also has boosted the fortunes of Mr. Wizner, who splits his time between construction work and taxidermy.
WSJ: After Long Hibernation, Taxidermists Make a Killing During Bear Season
"These are markets that in the past year have had sharp turndowns but we think they have longer-term potential, " says Wizner.
"We're not trying to predict which markets will all of a sudden have double-digit growth in home prices again, " says Wizner.
Wizner says it comes down to how much organic demand these cities are left with when the speculative overpricing is stripped away.
"Markets with a high percentage of jobs in those categories tend to be more or less stable markets, " says LMM president Ingo Wizner.
Wizner says that's exactly why real estate is becoming exciting again.
In 1999, Martin Wizner, a sailor for a Spanish team, died when a piece of equipment came loose from his boat and struck him in the head.
Wizner says that keeping the documents classified makes them much more difficult to use in courts, for instance, and allows the government to avoid confirming their authenticity.
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None hold out hope, perhaps, more than Mr. Wizner, who dreams of quitting the construction business to take up taxidermy full time and moving out of his family's house.
WSJ: After Long Hibernation, Taxidermists Make a Killing During Bear Season
Keeping bears in cold storage isn't an option for Mr. Wizner, who has two already-full freezers and said his mother wouldn't give up any of her freezer space in the house.
WSJ: After Long Hibernation, Taxidermists Make a Killing During Bear Season
"It's now harder and harder to go about our lives without being tracked everywhere, " said Ben Wizner, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union who specializes in privacy and technology issues.
Mr. Wizner: Effectively, what the CIA is arguing is that discussion in a courtroom of facts that have already in been on the front page of The Washington Post will threaten national security.
"Obtaining a broad range of telephone records in order to ferret out a government leaker is an unacceptable abuse of power, " Ben Wizner, the head of the ACLU's Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, said in a written statement.
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