Obama lawyers asked secret court to ignore public court's decision on spying
Source: The Guardian
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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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/09/obama-fisa-court-surveillance-phone-records
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)marym625
(17,997 posts)Severely disappointed, yet again, but not surprised
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)from its increasingly restive citizens.
marym625
(17,997 posts)Frickin' fascists
TheNutcracker
(2,104 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)Was this written by a six year old?
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Stop looking for heroes. BE one.[/center][/font][hr]
OnyxCollie
(9,958 posts)RR2
(87 posts)Move along, nothing to see here.
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cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
aggiesal
(8,914 posts)that there's gambling going on, at this establishment.
blackspade
(10,056 posts)Bulk collection is banned under that law.
Circumventing it is some police state bullshit.
Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)Right out of the ol' Republican playbook.
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)What a joke its become.
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)I am attacked for saying sure as Hell isn't a liberal.
ozone_man
(4,825 posts)Why does it take a paper like the Guardian to report on this?