In the second part of his response to a New York Times article by Eric Lichtblau on the FISA Court, Orin discusses ideas to revamp the procedures: Here’s one tentative proposal on what such a procedure could look like. Congress could amend the FISA statute to create a new role for the Oversight Section of the…
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Hints and Questions About the Secret Fourth Amendment Rulings of the FISA Court
Orin Kerr writes: In the New York Times, Eric Lichtblau has a major scoop describing some of the secret rulings of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, aka the FISC (and sometimes just called “the FISA court”). According to Lichtblau’s sources, described as “current and former officials familiar with the court’s classified decisions,” the FISA court has…
U.S. defends secrecy of unique surveillance court
David Ingram reports: The Obama administration on Friday urged a secret U.S. court that oversees surveillance programs to reject a request by a civil liberties group to see court opinions used to underpin a massive phone records database. Justice Department lawyers said in papers filed in the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that the court’s…
EU votes to support suspending U.S. data sharing agreements, including passenger flight data
Zack Whittaker reports that the European Parliament voted in favor of a resolution that would back the Commission should it wish to suspend data sharing agreements with the U.S., such as the passenger name records system, in light of mass surveillance by the National Security Agency. But motions to halt the trade talks failed, so…