Tuesday, September 17, 2013

US judge orders review of secret opinions regarding NSA surveillance

[JURIST] A judge for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) [official website] on Friday ordered [opinion, PDF] the review of FISC opinions to identify which are subject to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) [ACLU backgrounder] disclosure. The order comes in response to a motion [text, PDF] filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] directly to FISC requesting the publication of its opinions dealing with the constitutionality of the National Security Agency (NSA) [official website] phone record collections....

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/09/us-judge-orders-review-of-secret-opinions-regarding-nsa-surveillance.php

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