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EFF Wins Release of Secret Court Opinion: NSA Surveillance Unconstitutional

Posted by samzenpus on from the stop-it dept.

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."

2 of 524 comments (clear)

  1. From TFA by mcgrew · · Score: 5, Informative

    The documents showed that the problems were relatively small when compared with the vast scale of N.S.A. surveillance conducted from the United States on noncitizens abroad. The ruling estimated that the agency intercepts more than 250 million communications that way each year. And the N.S.A. fixed the problems to the courtâ(TM)s satisfaction, the documents showed.

    Interesting...

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  2. Re:Impeach Obummer! by Darkness404 · · Score: 5, Informative

    The thing that makes Obama different than Bush is that Obama promised stuff like protection for whistleblowers and attacked the NSA's wiretapping.

    Candidate Obama said that The Bush administration puts forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we provide.

    That is quite different than what President Obama is saying now.

    This is very much like George Bush Sr.'s "Read my lips: no new taxes" line.

    Nowhere did Candidate Bush nor President Bush vow to end illegal wiretapping. But Obama did.

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