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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsObama lawyers asked secret court to ignore public court's decision on spying
The administration is still as duplicitous as ever on this subject.; From The Guardian:
[font size=5]Obama lawyers asked secret court to ignore public court's decision on spying[/font]
[font size=Justice Departments national security chief cites six-month transition period in the USA Freedom Act as a reason to turn the bulk surveillance spigot back on[/font]
The Obama administration has asked a secret surveillance court to ignore a federal court that found bulk surveillance illegal and to once again grant the National Security Agency the power to collect the phone records of millions of Americans for six months.
The legal request, filed nearly four hours after Barack Obama vowed to sign a new law banning precisely the bulk collection he asks the secret court to approve, also suggests that the administration may not necessarily comply with any potential court order demanding that the collection stop.
US officials confirmed last week that they would ask the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance court better known as the Fisa court, a panel that meets in secret as a step in the surveillance process and thus far has only ever had the government argue before it to turn the domestic bulk collection spigot back on.
Justice Department national security chief John A Carlin cited a six-month transition period provided in the USA Freedom Act passed by the Senate last week to ban the bulk collection as a reason to permit an orderly transition of the NSAs domestic dragnet. Carlin did not address whether the transition clause of the Freedom Act still applies now that a congressional deadlock meant the program shut down on 31 May.
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[font size=Justice Departments national security chief cites six-month transition period in the USA Freedom Act as a reason to turn the bulk surveillance spigot back on[/font]
The Obama administration has asked a secret surveillance court to ignore a federal court that found bulk surveillance illegal and to once again grant the National Security Agency the power to collect the phone records of millions of Americans for six months.
The legal request, filed nearly four hours after Barack Obama vowed to sign a new law banning precisely the bulk collection he asks the secret court to approve, also suggests that the administration may not necessarily comply with any potential court order demanding that the collection stop.
US officials confirmed last week that they would ask the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance court better known as the Fisa court, a panel that meets in secret as a step in the surveillance process and thus far has only ever had the government argue before it to turn the domestic bulk collection spigot back on.
Justice Department national security chief John A Carlin cited a six-month transition period provided in the USA Freedom Act passed by the Senate last week to ban the bulk collection as a reason to permit an orderly transition of the NSAs domestic dragnet. Carlin did not address whether the transition clause of the Freedom Act still applies now that a congressional deadlock meant the program shut down on 31 May.
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Obama lawyers asked secret court to ignore public court's decision on spying (Original Post)
markpkessinger
Jun 2015
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Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)1. I like a man who sticks to his principles
And clearly Obama has found a principle worth sticking to.
I wonder if he has found his comfortable shoes yet?
Maedhros
(10,007 posts)2. This action underscores the reason for my disapproval of Obama.
It's not what he has failed to do, it's what he does.
dgibby
(9,474 posts)3. So much for the most transparent admin. in history. n/t
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)4. Mr. Transparency's fondness for secrecy is both unseemly & unsettling -nt-
frylock
(34,825 posts)5. How Constitutionally scholarly of him.