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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 governments 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 Agencys inspector general relayed some details about the interaction between the courts judges and the NSA, which sought approval for the Bush administrations 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 courts 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 generals 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 governments reach into Americans lives and the effort to protect the nation in the Internet age.
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usGovOwesUs3Trillion
(2,022 posts)haven't turned down even 1 request.
tularetom
(23,664 posts)God forbid that anyone would ever think that the FISA kangaroo court would collaborate with the NSA.
How naive is this woman anyway?
Catherina
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(19,841 posts)Harmony Blue
(3,978 posts)lets see what they have?