Snowden will go down a hero for my generation

[avaistheone1]

44. Even our elected officials don't understand the scope of the spying on Americans. And it appears

they have not been allowed to know.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is suing the Justice Department under the Freedom of Information Act, based on a request made last year by Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon about that specific Fourth Amendment violation.

Wyden is regularly briefed about the activities of the NSA and FISC, and he asked the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) last year to release some information about the Patriot Act and the Fourth Amendment—most probably because he knew it existed and he couldn’t talk about it directly.

A letter to Wyden from Kathleen Turner, the director of legal affairs for the DNI, confirmed that on at least one occasion, FISC found that an information request from the NSA wasn’t reasonable under the Fourth Amendment.

Turner also said, “I believe that the government’s implementation of Section 702 of FISA [the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act] has sometimes circumvented the spirit of the law, and on at least one occasion the FISA Court has reached this same conclusion.”

http://news.yahoo.com/courts-doj-tussle-over-fourth-amendment-spying-violations-100040425.html