EFF Wins Release of Secret Court Opinion: NSA Surveillance Unconstitutional

mspohr writes "For over a year, EFF has been fighting the government in federal court to force the public release of an 86-page opinion of the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC). Issued in October 2011, the secret court's opinion found that surveillance conducted by the NSA under the FISA Amendments Act was unconstitutional and violated 'the spirit of' federal law."

Comments

Now they're gonna get it...

[Cornwallis]

They'll be put on Double Secret Probation.

Re:I should have finished reading before posting

[fustakrakich]

There need to be penalties. Someone should be brought up on charges.

Yeah well, he's in Russia, or so we are told :-)

Re:Impeach Obummer!

[Anonymous Coward]

Fact: Obama was more responsible for Katrina response than Bush:
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/poll-louisiana-gopers-unsure-if-katrina-response-was

Violated the Spirit

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't worry, they didn't actually violate a law. It was the 'spirit' of the law that was violated.

Move along people, nothing to see here.

Re:Shut it down

[wisnoskij]

Shut down all the garbage mashers on the detention level!

Released text of the opinion:

[L. J. Beauregard]

ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION, Plaintiff.
versus
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY, Defendant.

[Redacted] [redacted] of the [redacted]. [Redacted] [redacted] and [100 pages of completely blacked out text].

We rule, therefore that [redacted] [redacted] [redacted].