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Secret Court Issues Public Ruling
The Atlantic Politics Channel — ... The U.S. top surveillance court has just released a previously secret ruling clarifying -- and expanding -- the government's ability to collect and analyze data for intelligence-gathering purposes.  ...

The FISC Decision On the Protect America Act
TalkLeft — ... , the FISC appellate court issued a decision today on the constitutionality of the Protect America Act. the panel was composed of Bruce Selya of the First Circuit, and Senior Judges Ralph Winter of the Second Circuit and Richard Arnold of the Sixth Circuit. As expected, this is just an exercise in deciding whether the PAA is constitutional as does not pass on any actions by the Bush Administration. More after I dread the opinion. ...

Why The Torture Issue Can't Be Swept Under The Rug
TalkLeft — ... to doing things . . . there's no wink, no nod, no secret handshake. We won't do it." (Emphasis supplied.) Since the goal of some of us is that they don't do it, Hayden is telling you what we must do -- investigate and remove any chance of misconstrued winks, nods and secret handshakes. More . . . Indeed, due in no small part to the incompetence of the Media, Hayden thinks the illegality of the Bush Administration was vindicated by yesterday's FISC appellate court ruling. Hayden said: Hayden won a measure of vindication with ...

The Media Is Not Good At Its Job
TalkLeft — ... on the FISC appellate court's ruling on the Protect America Act demonstrates that even on the second day - even two of the better reporters on the best newspaper in the country are incapable of getting the story right. Indeed, perhaps in reaction to ...

The Government Sez: We Don’t Have a Database of All Your Communication
Firedoglake — ... I'm going to try to do a series of posts on the FISA Appeals Court ruling before football starts tomorrow. In this post, I just want to point to a passage that deserves more scrutiny: ...

FISA Question of the Day: How to Prove Intentionality of Domestic Surveillance?
Firedoglake — ... of many of our suspicions about Bush's warrantless wiretapping programs, I wanted to point a footnote from the recently declassified FISCR ruling. In a paragraph addressing the incidental collection of Americans' communications and ...

Surveillance Program Violates Fourth Amendment, DNI Blair’s Office Says
Firedoglake — ... cause requirement through the application of a provision in Executive Order 12333 that requires only that the Attorney General "determine" that surveillance is directed against an agent of a foreign power. And the PAA program (and, I assume, the FAA program) only complies with the Fourth Amendment's requirement for particularity through a set of procedures not mandated by PAA or FAA, and not shared with the telecoms handing over their customer data. The FISCR explained: ...