To: Fedora
In November 2013, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence declassified and released a circa-July 2010 (date classified) FISC ruling by Judge Bates authorizing the National Security Agency to restart mass collection of internet metadata, including those of U.S. citizens.[13] Bates noted that the NSA had been violating provisions of various laws, but nevertheless decided to allow the government to continue many aspects of the mass surveillance program. Critics of encroaching U.S. security state policies, in a nod to the Bates numbering method used in the legal field, appropriated the "Bates stamp" moniker as a neologism to refer to often uncritical FISC scrutiny of U.S. government conduct when considering Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) applications.[14]
43 posted on
02/17/2019 4:17:06 PM PST by
Fedora
To: Fedora
Bates “warned against the release of application materials”...
funny that. let the FISC judges speak for themselves.
meanwhile, release all the docs.
44 posted on
02/17/2019 4:35:22 PM PST by
MAGAthon
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