Posted on 06/07/2013 3:33:15 PM PDT by RummyChick
In the midst of revelations that the government has conducted extensive top-secret surveillance operations to collect domestic phone records and internet communications, the Justice Department was due to file a court motion Friday in its effort to keep secret an 86-page court opinion that determined that the government had violated the spirit of federal surveillance laws and engaged in unconstitutional spying.
(Excerpt) Read more at motherjones.com ...
“Government lawyers are trying to keep buried a classified court finding that a domestic spying program went too far.”
Interesting that Mother Jones is reporting on this
btw, where were the Republicans???
This article says it’s two Democrats that had problems with this program.
Hmmm...... How did the case get to the court in order to make a ruling?
Who filed a secret suit seeking a secret verdict?
Do we have a court of secrets? It must be secret
In odd circumstances, civil libertarians of the right and left temporarily agree the government is out of control....
“Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court”
I don’t remember ever knowing there was a Secret Court.
Maybe I did. I guess there are some people on this site that know about it.
Two democrats is the same as the rouge IRS staff in Cinncinnati
I think they're still out on Easter break. They'll return 1 hour before they begin their 2-month July 4'th break.
Pubs are hiding behind Mother Jones
What’s interesting to me is I’m agreeing more with people on the left than I have in my entire adult life. The left is FURIOUS with O.
I suppose there are still some actual Americans left out there.
FISA court
some info here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Court
https://ssd.eff.org/foreign/fisa
The way it is supposed to work is individual requests are made to a court who approves and then surveillance conducted. Not designed as an open-ended fishing expedition. For Obama to try and hide behind the law is ridiculous
billy. The great manipulator at work. obaby has become a liability.
Time for M Zullo to file his fraud case.
The expert who did the evaluation of the documents is also a democrat.
Two democrats is the same as the rouge IRS staff in Cinncinnati
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Those rouge staffers are very cheeky.
;-)
Funny how the left has re-discovered the Constitution.
I don’t remember ever knowing there was a Secret Court.
The FISA court was formed as part of the Patriot Act. It was widely discussed at the time (2001), but could've been missed in the welter of everything else that was happening at the time.
Using cell which puts in its own words. Sometimes gets very interesting since print is small and eyes are deteriorating
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