The U.S. Department of Justice will challenge a Chicago judge’s decision to force prosecutors to turn over secret information about government surveillance to the defense lawyers representing a man charged in a terror case.

U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman on Jan. 29 ordered prosecutors to disclose Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court applications and orders to the lawyers for Adel Daoud. The ruling marked the first ever to compel the government to disclose highly secretive FISA material to defense lawyers.

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