Siobhan Gorman reports:
A federal judge slammed a new surveillance-overhaul bill backed by the White House and civil-liberties groups that would establish a privacy advocate for the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in addition to curbing data collection on Americans.
Judge John Bates, a federal district-court judge who has served on the secret national-security court, said in a letter that the legislation’s proposals for the surveillance court “could inadvertently undermine the twin goals of protecting privacy and national security.”
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Yet another judge that should be disbarred from the system.