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Purveyor

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Sun Jun 30, 2013, 08:00 PM Jun 2013

Secret-Court Judges Upset At Portrayal Of ‘Collaboration’ With Government

By Carol D. Leonnig, Ellen Nakashima and Barton Gellman, Published: June 29

Recent leaks of classified documents have pointed to the role of a special court in enabling the government’s secret surveillance programs, but members of the court are chafing at the suggestion that they were collaborating with the executive branch.

A classified 2009 draft report by the National Security Agency’s inspector general relayed some details about the interaction between the court’s judges and the NSA, which sought approval for the Bush administration’s top-secret domestic surveillance programs. The report was described in The Washington Post on June 16 and released in full Thursday by The Post and the British newspaper the Guardian.

U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, the former chief judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, took the highly unusual step Friday of voicing open frustration at the account in the report and court’s inability to explain its decisions.

“In my view, that draft report contains major omissions, and some inaccuracies, regarding the actions I took as Presiding Judge of the FISC and my interactions with Executive Branch officials,” Kollar-Kotelly said in a statement to The Post. It was her first public comment describing her work on the intelligence court.

The inspector general’s draft report is among the many documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, touching off a roiling national debate about the proper balance between the government’s reach into Americans’ lives and the effort to protect the nation in the Internet age.

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Secret-Court Judges Upset At Portrayal Of ‘Collaboration’ With Government (Original Post) Purveyor Jun 2013 OP
They don't like the term rubber stamp to describe the process they've had in place for over a decade usGovOwesUs3Trillion Jun 2013 #1
Boo fuckin hoo tularetom Jun 2013 #2
Chafing are they? So soon? Save the melodrama Catherina Jun 2013 #3
too late marions ghost Jun 2013 #4
If it bothers them so much Harmony Blue Jun 2013 #5
 

usGovOwesUs3Trillion

(2,022 posts)
1. They don't like the term rubber stamp to describe the process they've had in place for over a decade
Sun Jun 30, 2013, 08:03 PM
Jun 2013

haven't turned down even 1 request.

tularetom

(23,664 posts)
2. Boo fuckin hoo
Sun Jun 30, 2013, 08:07 PM
Jun 2013

God forbid that anyone would ever think that the FISA kangaroo court would collaborate with the NSA.

How naive is this woman anyway?

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